Epidendrum rigidiflorum Schltr. 1923

GROUP Macrostachyum SUBGROUP Aquaticum Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Rigid Flower Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with scarsely branching, subapically, cane-like, terete, thick, straight stems enveloped by leafless in the lower 1/3 and leaf bearing sheaths in the upper 2/3's and carrying to 22, articulate, alternate, unequal, lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, apical margin denticualte leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on a terminal, erect, racemose, flowering only once, distichous, secund, terete, thin, straight, 4" [10 cm] long, 10 to 19 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, apically gradually shorter floral bracts that are twice as long as the ovary and carrying nocturnally fragrant, simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, secund, fleshy, rigid flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19; 127. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1174 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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