Epidendrum laterale Rolfe 1912 GROUP Laterale Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

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Common Name The Lateral Epidendrum [refers to the inflorescence arising basally and appearing lateral, a rarity in the genus]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama and Colombia as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic herb at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters with close set, ovoid, smooth psuedobulbs carrying a single, apiocal, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring and is different in that it has a basal, 2" [5 cm] long, few flowered, erect to lateral inflorescences with fragrant flowers occuring in the winter.

Synonyms Auliza laterale (Rolfe) Brieger 1977; Auliza rousseauae (Schltr.) Brieger 1977; Epidendrum rousseauae Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1136 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1175 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section

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