Epidendrum phyllocharis Rchb.f. 1878 GROUP Albertii SUBGROUP Allenii Drawing by © F. A. Brockhaus and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website©

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Common Name The Beautiful Leaved Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet forests at elevations of 650 to 1850 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, erect, basally terete, laterally compressed, ancipitous above,, erect, straight stems carrying numerous, all along the stem, alternate, coriaceous, margin entire, dorsally tinged purple, narrowly elliptic, to oblong-lanceolate, rounded narrowly bilobed, articulate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the late spring through later winter on a terminal and several lateral, arising on the upper half of the stem, racemose, short, compact, few flowered inflorescence arising on a single or 2, at the apex of the peduncle, narrowly ovate, rounded , tubular basally, conduplicate above, ancipitous and similar to the floral bracts and with a single flower open at one time

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 973 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 drawing fide;

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