Epidendrum subnutans Ames & Schweinf. 1930 GROUP Pseudoepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Specimen by © Brenes and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The Not Completely Nodding Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 1750 meters as a medium to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, thin stems carrying 7 to 11, along the apical 1/2 of the stem, lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, veined, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, thin, arching, slighly flexuous, slightly papillose, paniculate, lax, many flowered inflorescence provided with a single, prominent, tubular, acuminate bract and triangular-lanceoalte, acuminate, generally less than half the length of the ovary floral bracts and carrying 33 to 200 successively opening, resupinate flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 11 plate 1185 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide;

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