Epidendrum eburneum Rchb. f. 1867 GROUP Nocturnum Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez

Common Name or Meaning The Ivory-Colored Epidendrum

Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama low on tree trunks at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect, terete stem enveloped basally by several, tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying a few, coriaceous, dorsally carinate, narrowly elliptic, conduplicate below and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, fractiflex, successively flowered inflorescence 4 to 6 with fragrant flowers. This species is indistiguishable from E nocturnum when not in bloom but in flower differs by the shape of the flower segments

Synonyms Epidendrum leucocardium Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 31. Panama Schlechter 1922; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 715 Hamer 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1121 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;

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