Epidendrum miserrimum Rchb.f. 1855 GROUP Epidanthus Photo by Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Common Name or Meaning The Insignificant Epidendrum

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

Found in Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil in montane pluvial forests at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with simple, cane-like stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 3 to 9, all along the stem, distichous, alternate, articulate, semiterete, generally ascending, linear to linear-lanceolate, subacute, low dorsal keel, becoming conduplicate below into the clasping base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, distichous, secund, laxly 3 to 9 flowered, laterally compressed, two-winged inflorescence with in the apical half, 1 to 3, tubular bracts and cucullate, longer than the ovary, widely ovate-elliptic, apiculate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying, fragrant, non-resupinate, distichous, fleshy, simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum poaforme Schltr. 1923; Epidendrum poiforme Schltr. 1923; Jacquiniella miserrima (Rchb.f.) Stehlé 1937 publ. 1938; Microepidendrum miserrimum Brieger 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 372 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 903 Hagsater 2007 *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1961; Flora De Venezuela Volumne XV Parte Foldats 1970; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 737 Dodson 1982 see recognition section; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1220 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 475 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; The Orchids of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1992; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 419 Hagsater 2001 see recognition Section; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Part 6 Plate 959 Hagsater 2007 drawing fide

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