Epidendrum patens Sw. 1806 GROUP Mutelianum Photo by © Joel Papy and his Flickr Photo Website

LATER and

Common Name The Wide Open Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in the Leeward and the Windward Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect to ascending, rather slender, terete, ancipitous stem carrying a few distichous, towasrds the apex, rigid, coriaceous, ovate to elliptic to ovate-elliptic, rarely oblong-elliptic, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, paniculate, distinctly long-pedunculate, very rarely abbreviated racemose, ancipitous, many flowered inflorescence with a few remote bracts and acuminate floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Exophya fuscata Raf. 1837

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

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