Epidendrum magnibracteatum Ames 1922GROUP Spathiger SUBGROUP Coriifolium Drawing © by Jimenez & Hagsater The Epidendra Website

NOCTURNAL LATE LATE

Common Name The Large Bracted Epidendrum

Flower Size 2.4" [ 6 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in wet forests and rarely on roadbanks at elevations of 1250 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terretsrial with simple, cane-like, erect, laterally compressed, straight stems and carrying 2 to 4, all along the apical half of the stem, distichous, subcoriaceous, narrowly oblong to elliptic, deeply bilobed, margin entire, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter through late summer on a terminal, simple, racemose, occuring only once, distichous, erect, zig-zag, laterally compressed, ancipitose, 1.4" to 2.4" [3.5 to 6 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature growth, with 3 to 9, imbricating, conduplicate, carinate, longly acuminate, minutely denticulate bracts and with as longer than the ovary, ovate, longly acuminate, conduplicate, imbricating floral bracts and carrying 4 to 10, simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, secund, nocturnally weakly fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum palmense Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1154 Hagsater & Salazar 2008 as E palmense drawing ok

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