Epidendrum nubium Rchb.f. 1866 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula photo by Arboetum Website

Common Name The Cloud Forest Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in elfin and cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1650 meters as a medium to giant sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, branching stems producing new stems from the internodes below the leaves of the previous stem and carrying 3 to 5, coriaceous, disticous, towards the apex, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, racemose, arching, many flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I am not sure of this detemination. I await better photos.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 724 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

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