Epidendrum polyanthum Lindl. 1831 GROUP Polyanthum SUBGROUP Anceps Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Many Flowered Epidendrum

Flower Size to about 3/4" [to 1.9 cm]

Found in Chiapas Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Brazil in wet premontane forests at elevations of 914 to 2000 meters, as an exteremly variable, medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional terrestrial with an erect, terete, cane-like stem enveloped basally by a few scarious, cloe sheaths and carrying basally clasping, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute dark green leaves that blooms on a teminal, erect, to 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, sheathed, several to many [5 to 20] flowered inflorescence with the flowers opening in succession occuring mostly in the summer but is possible several times a year.

Synonyms Epidendrum bisetum Lindl. 1841; Epidendrum colorans Klotzsch 1851; Epidendrum funiferum C. Morren 1848; Epidendrum heteroglossum Kraenzl. 1921; Epidendrum lansbergii Regel 1855 Epidendrum polystachyum Pav. ex Lindl. 1831; Epidendrum quinquelobum Schltr. 1923; Epidendrum stallforthianum Kraenzl. 1912; Epidendrum verrucipes Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 124. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 125. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E quinquelobum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 729 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1321 Atwood 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 390 Hagsater & Soto 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Perviarum Plate 649 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see observations; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 437 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 963 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1136 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1162 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1181 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1196 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section

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