Epidendrum mirabile Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Wonderful Epidendrum

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Costa Rica on moss covered trunks and branches of oaks as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing species occuring at an elevation of 1100 to 2000 meters with terete, cane-like, straight stems with each successive stem arising from the subapical node of the previous stem and carrying numerous, alternate, distrubuted throughout the stem, articulate, narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, unequally bilobed , subcoriaceous, the lower and apical smaller leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short, densely few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence with 1 to 3 mostly 2, simultaneously opening, very fragrant flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 957 Hagsater 2007