Epidendrum pseudepidendrum Rchb. f. 1856 GROUP Pseudoepidendrum SUBGROUP Turiavae Photo courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens and Their Website

Flower Aspects Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

WEAK to LATE to EARLY

Common Name The False Epidendrum

Flower Size 2 1/2 to 3" [6.25 to 7.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in lowland and foothills rain forests at altitudes of 400 to 2000 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic herb with cylindric thin, tall stems enveloped by tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying a few, elliptic, coriaceous, acute, basally clasping leaves all held towards the apex that blooms in late winter and early spring on a terminal, loose, semi-erect to arching, to 6" [15 cm]long, few [3 to 5] flowered raceme arising on a newly mature pseudobulb with several, basal, imbricate bracts and weakly scented, simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Pseudepidendrum spectabile Rchb.f 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1432 Atwood 1992; Icones Orchidacearum 2 plate 197 Hagsater & Salazar 19953 see recognition sectionAOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 11 1997 photo; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 9 1998 photo; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 3 2000 photo; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 8 2008 drawing; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1102 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1165 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008

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