Epidendrum repens Cogn. 1909 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Repens
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Common Name The Crawling Epidendrum
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Niacaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 1850 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte with a branching stem enveloped basally by seeral, tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying many, linear-oblong, obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms in spring through fall on a terminal, short inflorescence with a single flower that is held close to the leaf apex.
Synonyms Epidendrum bourgeaui Schltr. 1918; Epidendrum protractum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum ramistratum Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum solisequum Kraenzl. 1921; Spathiger repens (Cogn.) Acuña 1939
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E protractum; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as E ramistratum; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 5 1959; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 733 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 315 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 919 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 923 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 953 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 994 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1169 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008
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