Epidendrum anceps Jacq. 1763 GROUP Anceps SUBGROUP Anceps Photo courtesy of Eladio M. Fernandez © 2005 Dominican Republic
Brown Cultivar, Deflexed Sepals and Petals Costa Rica Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name Brown Epidendrum or Double-Edged Epidendrum
Flower Size 1/2" [6 cm]
Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a medium sized, caespitose, warm to cold growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte occuring in cypress swamps and damp montane and tropical rain forests at altitudes up to 2000 meters, with erect, ancipitous, stems enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying several to many, lanceolate, basally clasping leaves that graduate in size from the base and blooms throughout the year on an apical, 9" [22.5 cm] long, terminal, subumbellate, racemose inflorescence that is covered with several scarious, imbicate, acuminate sheaths and carries many, small, fragrant [old stale straw], flowers clustered at the apex and blooms repeatedly from the old inflorescence over a few years.
Differs from the similar E amphistomum by the smaller plant, greener flowers and the 3 lobed lip.
Synonyms Amphiglottis anceps [Jacq.]Britt 1924; Amphiglottis lurida Salisb. 1812; Epidendrum anceps var viridipurpureum [Hkr.]Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum cearense Barb. Rod. 1881; Epidendrum ensatum Rich & Gal. 1845; Epidendrum fuscatum Sm. 1791; Epidendrum fuscatum var. virescens Lodd. ex Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum patens Sw [non HKR.]Epidendrum schenckianum Krzl. 1909; Epidendrum schreineri Barb. Rodr. 1881; Epidendrum secundum Sw. 1760; Epidendrum secundum ssp Breigeri H. Dietrich 1992; Epidendrum virescens Lodd. 1832; Epidendrum viridipurpureum Hooker 1838; Tritelandra fuscata (Sm.) Raf. 1837
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as E anceps var viridipurpureum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17:29. Panama Schlechter 1922; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 116. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 209. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as E. patens; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0056 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E musciferum; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Planetarum Troipcarum Plate 072 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 707 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 448 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 469 Bennett & Christenson 1998 see comments; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 437 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002 as E musciferum; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 764 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 846 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1102 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;
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