Epidendrum hameri Hágsater & L.Sánchez 1993 GROUP Difforme Drawing by © JImenez & Hagsater and Epidendra Website

Common Name Hamer's Epidendrum [German Orchid Specialst in El Slavador later 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 950 to 1150 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, reed-like, laterally compressed, straight stems carrying 4 to 9, all along the stem, the lower ones elliptic and spaced apart, the upper ones ovate and imbricating, both bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, sessile, occuring only once, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, simulataneously opening flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 142 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 drawing fide;

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