Epidendrum paranthicum Rchb.f. 1852 GROUP Epidanthus Photo by © and The Nicaraguan Orchidaceae Website
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EARLY
Common Name The Closely Alternating Epidendrum [probably refers to the flowers]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 900 to 1560 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with simple, produced from the basal nodes of the previous stem, terete, very thin, erect stems carrying 5 to 8, distributed along the stem,, alternate, more or less fleshy, erect-spreading, acicular to linear, acute, entire marginally, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, racemose, occuring only once, distichous, erect, laterally compressed, secund, rachis somewhat zigzag, lax, successively 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with a bract a thte middle similar to the longer thant he ovary, amplexicaul, widely triangular, basally tubular, acute apically floral bract and carrying fleshy flowerss.
Synonyms Epidanthus paranthicus (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1940
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Orchidacearum Part 13 Plate 1367 Hagsater 2010 drawing ok
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