Epidendrum resectum Rchb.f. 1876 GROUP Pseudoepidendrum SUBGROUP Turialvae Drawing by © Rchb.f and The Epidendra Website

LATE THROUGH

Common Name The Short Inflorescence Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 630 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, thin, arching to erect stems with the basal portion enveloped by 5 to 6 tubular, acute, nonfoliaceous sheaths and carrying 5 to 8, along the apical half of the stem, alternate, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate to rarely acute, entire marginally , articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a terminal, arcuate-nutant, short, laterally compressed, thin, somewhat ancipitose, racemose, occuring only once, densely many flowered inflorescence with 3 acuminate, decreasing in length, usually tubular basally, conduplicate, the upper bracts triangular-lanceolate, shorter bracts and the rachis enveloped almost completely by half as long as the ovary, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts carrying 15 to 40, successively opening, resupinate, disagreeably fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 11 plate 1170 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide;

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