Epidendrum goniorhachis Schltr. 1918GROUP Epidanthus
Inflorescence Photo by © Franco Pupulin and The Epidendra Website
LATER
THROUGH MID 
Common Name The Fruit Bearing Rachis Epidendrum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 700 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with simple, produced from the 1st or 2nd node from the base of the previous stem, cane-like, terete, very thin, erect, straight stem carrying 6 to 9, all along the stem, alternate, more or less fleshy, generally deciduous, linear, rounded, margin entire, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later summer through mid winter on a terminal, occuring only one, racemose, distichous, secund, suberect, laterally compressed, lax, 8 to 28 flowered inflorescence with an apical bract similat to the slightly longer than the ovary, widely triangular, acute, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying successively opening, distichous, resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Epidanthus goniorhachis (Schltr.) L.O.Williams 1940; Epidendrum fractiflexum F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1313 Atwood 1989 as Epidanthus goniorachis drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 943 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 drawing fide;
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