Epidendrum bractiacuminatum Hágsater & Dodson 1999

Plant and Flowers in situ

Light Color Flower

Light color form ensitu on steep roadbank

Photos courtesy of Joseph Dougherty

LATE to

Common Name The Gradually Tapering Floral Bract Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2100 to 2200 meters along a cold road through the Guacamayo Cloudforest Reserve as a giant sized, cool growing terrestrial blooms from late spring to fall with a terminal, many successively flowered inflorescence with the color variable flowers pressed by the gradually tapering, curved floral bracts when unopened. This speceis is similar to E macrostachyum fro which it differs by the long, acuminate floral bracts from which the flowers arise,

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on *Icones Orchidacearum 3 The Genus Epidendrum Part 2 Plate 317 Hagsater 1999;