Epidendrum nitens Rchb. f. 1866 GROUP Rigidum Photo courtesy Noble Bashor.

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Common Name The Bright Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Foun in Oaxaca Mx. as well as Belize and Guatemala at elevations of 800 to 1320 meters on Puerto Escondido Rd, as a epiphyte on oaks or in humid rainforests as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, simple, cane-like, laterally compressed to wards the apex stems carrying 2 to 3, on the apical 1/2 of the stem, ellitpic to narrowly elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, subcoriaceous, smooth, entire marginally, articulate below in tothe petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short, erect, few flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2 conduplicate bracts and nearly perpendicular to the rachis, ovate, rounded, conduplicate, longer than the ovary, progressively shorter floral bracts giving rise to 5 to 12 successive opening flowers with 4 to 7 open at any one time.

Synonyms Epidendrum johannis Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 357 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1311 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1361 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 drawing fide;

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