Epidendrum mixtecanum Hágsater & García-Cruz 1993 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

Common Name The Mixteca Epidendrum [refers to the pink splotch on the lip]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in eastern Chiapas state of Mexico and western Guatemala in mixed humid forests at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with simple, terete, cane-like stems enveloped by thin scarious older leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying elliptic, acute, basally clasping and articulate to the leaf bearing sheaths that blooms in the spring on a terminal, paniculate, 4 1/4 to 11" [11 to 27 cm] long, suberect inflorescence arising on a mature cane and carrying the 26 to 90, simultaneously opening, fragrant [lemon] flowers

Closely related to E costatum, E hueycantenangense, E mixtecanum and E oaxacanum,

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 158 Hagsater 1993 drwaing fide

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