Epidendrum incomptum Rchb.f. 1853 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Incomptum Photo Courtesy of Daniel Jimenez
Common Name or Meaning The Insignificant Epidendrum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 900 to 1600 [2100] meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with stems arising from the middle node of the previous, simple, cane-like, terete stem carrying2 to 4, in the apical 1/3, articulate, alternate, erect-spreading, oblong-elliptic, acute, subcoriaceous leaves with an entire margin that blooms in the wild from summer through winter and in cultivation in the late winter and spring on a terminal, racemose to rarely paniculate, 1 to 1 1/2" [2.5 to 3.75 cm] long, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts that are half the length of the ovary.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Guatemala & Belize Ames & Correll 1952; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Epidendrum Part 2 Plate 145 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 7 Plate 768 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 8 Plate 804 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 8 Plate 814 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 834 Hagsater 2006 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 844 Hagsater 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 891 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 927 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section
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