Epidendrum stangeanum Rchb.f. 1881 Photo by © Nate Emery and his Flicker Photo Website

Plant Photo by Ana Patricia de Nicaragua and the - Infojardin Website

Common Name or Meaning Stang's Epidendrum [refers to the inflorescence with sessile flowers along an axis]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia? and Ecuador on trees in pastures and in wet lowland forests as well as mangoves forests at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a small szied, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to fusiform stems carrying a single, apical, fleshy, terete in youth, becoming subterete with age leaves that blooms in teh summer and fall on a terminal, erect, 2.2" [6 cm] long, laxly, to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying successively opening flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum glandulosum Ames 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 739 Hamer 1982 drawing; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1389 drawing fide;

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