Epidendrum pseudepidendrum Rchb. f. 1856 Photo courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens and Their Website
Flower Aspects Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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.
Synonyms Pseudepidendrum spectabile Rchb.f 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1432 Atwood 1992; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005