Epidendrum lacustre Lindley 1853 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Leucochilum

Inflorescence Photo by © David Hearsey

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Paul Greenough

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Common Name The Lakeside Epidendrum

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Plant photoed in Nicaragua, on Volcan Mombacho, but also from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in montane rain forest or cloud forest at an elevation of 700 to 2700 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a compressed, elongate stem completely enveloped by baslly clasping, alternate, leaf bearing sheaths carrying, elliptical leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, several [5 to 15] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from a green spathe with the night scented flowers held in an apical cluster.

Synonyms Epidendrum leucochilum Lindl. 1846; Epidendrum obesum Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 40. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E obesum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 photo as E obesum; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 33 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 721 Dodson 1982; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1135 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1260 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section;

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