Epidendrum anthropophorum Rchb.f. 1856 GROUP Cernuum SUBGROUP Anthropophorum

Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name The Human-Like Epidendrum [refers to the shape of the lip]

Flower Size 3/16" [1 cm]

This small to medium sized, epiphytc species is found in southwestern Ecuador on the westeren facing slopes in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2400 to 2800 meters as a cold growing epiphyte with branching, cane-like, terete stems carrying 9 to 10, placed in the upper 2/3's, oblong-lanceolate, bilobed apically, smooth leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, short, racemose, subglomerose inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia RChb.f 1856; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 807 Hagsater 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 906 Hagsater 2007 see Recognition Section

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