Epidendrum neoporpax Ames 1934 GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Octomerioides Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The New Porpax Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Cuba and Dominican Republic with thin, cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by 1 to 2 sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, linear, acute to obtuse, revolute margined leaves that blooms on a shorter than the leaf inflorescence.

Synonyms Auliza vestita Acuña 1939; Epidendrum porpax Rchb.f 1865; Epidendrum porpax var. domingensis Cogn. 1912; Epidendrum vestitum Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Catologo Descriptiva De Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987 as Auliza vestita; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 967 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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