Epidendrum sancti-ramoni Kraenzl. 1929 Photo by © Byron Rinke

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Common Name The San Ramon Epidendrum [Town in Costa Rica]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica Colombia and Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 800 to 2000 [2500] meters as a small sizeed, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender stems enveloped by sulcate leaf sheaths and carrying to 12 or so, acicular leaves and blooms in the spring through fall on a termianl, moderately zig-zag, racemose, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, to 12 successively flowered inflorescence with a broadly sublate, funnel-form floral bract that is shorter than the pedicel

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1530 Atwood/Mora 1993 drawing fide

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