Epidendrum oxyglossum Schltr. 1923 GROUP Ramosum Photo by © Adam Karremans.

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Pointed Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in rain and cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with branching, cane-like, terte, flexuous, becoming elongate and recumbent with age and giving rise to new erect growth and flowering stems carrying numerous, articulate, narrowly oblong-elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall on an apical, erect, short, single flowered inflorescence arsing from the short, flowering branches with non-resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 40. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:71 Schlechter 1924; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 969 Hagsater 2007;

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