Epidendrum eustirum Ames, F.T. Hubb. & C. Schweinf. 1935 GROUP Fruticosum Photo courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey.

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found from Mexico to Nicaragua in wet montane forests as medium sized, hot growing epiphyte that occurs at elevations of 750 to 1000 meters with terete, slender, cane-like stems enveloped by several, scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying towards the apex, a few to several, linear-lanceolate, mostly purplish, acute, basally clasping leaves and blooms on a terminal, to 2" [5 cm] long, arcuate, several to many flowered sub-umbelliform inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers occuring in the winter.

Synonyms Epidendrum carinatum Lindl. 1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 716 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 28 Hagsater & Sanchez 1990 see recognition section;

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