Epidendrum jamaicense Lindley 1853 GROUP Arbusculum SUBGROUP Incomptum Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

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Common Name The Jamaican Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A reed stem Epidendrum from the island of Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela that grows as a medium to large sized, well shaded, warm to hot growing epiphyte with a scandent stem giving rise to new stems from the middle of older ones and enveloped basally by sheath and carrying many distichous, distal, rather thin, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute to subacuminate, leaves that blooms on a terminal, arcuate to pendant, shorter, several flowered racemose inflorescence that has successive opening, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Amphiglottis jamaicensis (Lindl.) Acuña 1939; Epidendrum corymbosum Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum dichotomum Lindl. 1838; Epidendrum moirianum A.D.Hawkes 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as E corymbosum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum ecostatum; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 834 Hagsater 2006 see reecognotion section;

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