Epidendrum sanchoi Ames 1923 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Rugosum Type sheet courtesy of the Epidendra Website , Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name or Meaning Sancho's Epidendrum [Costa Rican Orchidist 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in lower montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with stems enveloped by verrucose leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 4, mostly near the branch tips, elliptic to linear-ligulate, emarginate apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and late fall

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1529 Dodson 1993 Atwood & Mora drawing fide;

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