Epidendrum ledifolium A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845 GROUP Propinquum Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Common Name

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Pictured species - Oaxaca MX., 2286m elev., Highway 189 at klm 415, epiphytic on deciduous oaks, growing with Laelia furfuracea

Found in Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico, D. Federal, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Puebla states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with branched, slender stems enveloped completely by scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, short to 3/4" [2 cm], fractiflex, erect to arcuate, few [3 to 5] flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

Cited as a synonym of Epidendrum propinquum and is certainly related but if this ID is correct it is quite different than the other.

Synonyms Epidendrum liparidoglossum L.O. Williams 1968

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 4 1964 drawing; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1983; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 324 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 5&6 Plate 570 Hagsater & Sanchez 2002 see recognition section

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