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

EARLIER

Common Name or Meaning The Well Keeled Epidendrum [refers to the carinate sepals]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found from Puebla, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 360 to 1700 meters as medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte 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, slightly citrus scented flowers occuring in the fall through earlier spring.

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 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 28 Hagsater & Sanchez 1990 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1329 Hagsater 2010 drawing fide

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