Epidendrum paucifolium Schltr. 1907 GROUP Bracteosum SUBGROUP Pallens Photo by © Denis Deralu and his Flickr Photo Website.

Common Name The Few Leafed Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 3485 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, ancipitose, thin basally, slightly thicker apically stems carrying 1 to 2, at the apex of the stem, articulate, alternate ascending, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute coriaceous, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, flowering only once, racemose, thin, ancipitose, suberect to slightly arching, lax, few flowered inflorescence enveloped almost completely by 2 tubular, acute, scarious, bracts and longer than the ovary, tubular at the base, acute, amplexicaule floral bracts and carrying 3 to 4, simultaneous, resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 972 Hagsater 2007 drawing ok;

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