Epidendrum macroclinium Hágsater 1987 GROUP Physinga Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by WOODSTREAM ORCHID

Common Name The Large Kliniandrum Epidendrum [the place where the pollina are attached to the column]

Flower Size 1/3" [8 mm]

Chiapas Mx., 457m elev., 12 klm beyond the village of Palenque, epiphytic on lower trunk of large tree in humid forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters on the Atlantic slope from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama and is a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with cylindric, compressed stems enveloped by leaf sheaths with fleshy, ovate to lanceolate, falcate, abaxially carinate, gray-green above, obtuse to acute, conduplicate below leaves that are subcordate at the base and blooms on a terminal, erect, 2 to 3 1/4" [5 to 8 cm] long, single successively flowered, somewhat fractiflex inflorescence lasting several seasons and occuring at most anytime of the year.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1526 Atwood 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1159 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section

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