Epidendrum musciferum Lindley 1834 GROUP Anceps SUBGROUP Anceps Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Fly Carrying Epidendrum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Fr Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 70 to 1200 meters as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, ancipitous, straight stems carrying 4 to 10, distichous, all along the upper 2/3's of the stem, rarely tinged purple, elliptic, obtuse to retuse apically, mucronate, coriaceous, becoming conduplicate to wards the bzase leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, racemose to pluriracemose, subcorymbose, dense, elongate, ancipitous, 5" [12.5 cm] long, 7 t o25 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 12, imbricate, tubular, laterally compressed, oblong acute to obtuse bracts and much shorter than the ovary, amplexicaule, triangular-ovate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate flowers that can produce new racemesfrom the same inflorescence over several years and thus appearing paniculate inflorescence.

Often cited as a synonym of E anceps but differs in the shorter narrower leaves, smaller flowers, cinnamon brown to yellow flowers sometimes tinged with purple and the column greenish witht he apical half often white.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 846 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1102 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition;

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