Epidendrum ibaguense H.B.K. 1816 Photo by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Ibague' Epidendrum [Colombian town]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.25 cm]

This is a highly variable, large sized, erect, hot to warm growing, reedstem terrestrial or lithophytic species at elevations of that is found from Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and northern Brazil with terete stems enveloped by grey or brown sheaths carrying elliptic, disticuous, acute or obtuse leaves that is freeblooming year round on a terminal, erect, to 14" [35 cm] long, simple or few branched, raceme with an apical cluster of blooms that open in succession over a long period of time and needs even year round conditions.

Synonyms Epidendrum baumannianum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum bituberculatum Rolfe 1892; Epidendrum fraternum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum miquelii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum planiceps Kraenzl. 1911; Epidendrum smithii Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum sororium Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004

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