Epidendrum flexuosum G. Mey. 1818 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Calanthe COMPLEX Flexuosum Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name The Bent Raceme Epidendrum

Flower Size to about 1" [to 2.5 cm]

Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in low altitude wet tropical forests as a large sized, hot growing reed stem epiphyte at an elevations of sea level to 1000 meters with erect, slender or stout, slightly compressed stems carrying erect-spreading, oblong-ligulate to linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, light green leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a simple or branched, 10" [ to 25 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with showy, long-lasting, non-resupinate flowers that open in succession over a long period of time.

Synonyms Epidendrum buenavistae Kraenzl. 1908; Epidendrum imatophyllum Lindl. 1831 mispell; Epidendrum imantophyllum Lindl. 1831; Epidendrum imetrophyllum Paxton 1837; Epidendrum lorifolium Schltr. 1922; Epidendrum palpigerum Rchb. f. 1879

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list as Epidendrum imantophyllum IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 35. Panama Schlechter 1922 E lorifolium; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as E imatophyllum mispell; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as E imatophyllum mispell; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 082 Dodson 1980 as E imatophyllum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 719 Dodson 1982 as E imatophyllum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 102 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as E imatophyllum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1525 Atwood 1993 as E imatophyllum; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Part 8 Plate 848 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; 1 Plate 1125 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;

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