Epidendrum miserrimum Rchb.f. 1855 GROUP Epidanthus Daniel Jimenez

FragranceFull shade Warm Cold Fall THROUGHSpring

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 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 fall through spring 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

I am not sure of the photo determination as there is no mention of this species being terrestrial and they appear to be too large.

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 Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1961; Flora De Venezuela Volumne XV Parte Foldats 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 737 Dodson 1982 see recognition section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1220 Dodson 1989; The Orchids of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1992; Native Orchids Of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1994; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 419 Hagsater 2001 see recognition Section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Part 6 Plate 959 Hagsater 2007

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