Epidendrum coxianum Rchb.f.1877 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Leucochilum Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt ©

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding ©

Common Name Cox's Epidendrum [English Orchid Enthusiast later 1800's]

Flower Size1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 2600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, cane-like stems enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying two apical, elliptic, coriaceous, apically obtuse, basally acute leaves and blooms in the winter on a terminal, 8" [20 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by a single, expanded, scarious sheath with the simultaneously opening flowers subtended by a triangular bract.

Synonyms Epidendrum dalstromii Dodson 1984

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 919 Dodson 1984 as E dalstromii; The Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 820 Hagsater 2006

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