Epidendrum coronatum Ruiz & Pav. 1798 GROUP Coronatum Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek

Common Name The Crown-Like Epidendrum?

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4 cm]

This is a large sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphytic or lithophytic reedstem species that is found on trunks and branches of trees and occasionally on rocky slopes from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters with erect, unbranched, lightly fractiflex stems with the lower portion having 4 to 5, tubular, scarious sheaths and the upper portion having articulated, elliptic to oblong-elliptic leaves that has a terminal, arching to pendant, 1 3/4' [4 cm] long, densely many [10 to 35] flowered, racemose inflorescence with 2 to 3 close bracts arising on a mature cane occurring in the winter and spring with dayscented of slight sweet green and night of lemon simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum amazonicum Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum benignum Ames 1923; Epidendrum compositum Vell. 1860; Epidendrum moyobambae Kraenzl. 1905; Epidendrum subpatens Schltr. 1922; Epidendrum sulphuroleucum Barb. Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil. 1: 242. 1798; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 40. Panama Schlechter 1922 as E subpatens; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 34. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E benignum; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as E moyobambe; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 3 1959 photo as E moyobambe; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as E moyobambe; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum moyobambae; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 43 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 450 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1113 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;

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