Epidendrum selaginella Schltr. 1906 GROUP Epidanthus Photo Courtesy of Daniel Jimenez

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Common Name or Meaning The Moss-fern-Like Epidendrum [Like a Selaginellus - Moss-fern]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Niacaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 650 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a small branching rhizome giving rise to erect stems enveloped by leaflees and higher up leafbearing sheaths and carrying several, alternate, distichous, oblong-ovate, apically bilobed, basally clasping leaves that are articulate to the sheaths that blooms in the winter on a terminal, 1.6" [4 cm] long, 2 to 8 flowered, racemose inflorescence with simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, disitchous flowers

Synonyms Microepidendrum selaginella (Schltr.) Brieger 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 44. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 128. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 218. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Field Guide to the orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 737 Hamer/Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 910 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 943 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 959 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 984 Hagsater 2007 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 991 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section;

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