Epidendrum spathulipetalum Hágsater & Dressler 2001 GROUP Neowilliamsia Drawing by © Lopez and Hagsater and The Epidendra Website

LATER THROUGH MID

Common Name The Spatulate Petal Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Panama in montane forests at unknown elevations as a medium sized epiphyte with an erect, sinuous, cane-like, laterally compressed stem and carrying 9 to 13, all along the upper half of the stem, narrowly elliptic, apiculate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the later summer and to mid fall on a terminal, paniculate, occuring only once, erect, sinuous, ancipitous, , 6.4" [16 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem, with 3, distributed along the stem, progressively smaller towards the apex, basally tubular, acute bracts and with shorter than the ovary, ovate, carinate, acute, margin entire floral bract and carrying 27 to 100, successively opening, non-resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidaceaum 4 Plate 486 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 drawing fide;

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