Epidendrum santaclarense Ames 1923 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Mirabile

Detail Of Inflorescence Specimen by © The Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Santa Clara Epidendrum [A Town in Costa Rica]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Chiapas Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 900 to 2600 meters as a giant sized, warm to cold growing, hanging epiphtye with a pendent, somewhatbranching, cane-like, terete stem producing 1 to 2 new stems from the middle internode, carrying 9 to 12, all along the main and secondary and tertiary stems, all sub-coriaceous, smooth, unequally sized, oblong-ligulate, obtuse to bilobed, entire marginally leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, open distichous, 2.4 to 3.2 " [6 to 8 cm] long inflorescence with 2, imbicating, tubular, obtuse bracts and not imbricating, as long as or slightly shorter than the ovary, ovate, rounded floral bacts and carrying 6 to 10, simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 735 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropoicarum Plate 1327 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1382 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 drawing ok;

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