Epidendrum tridens Poepp. & Endl. 1837-8 GROUP Nocturnum

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Common Name The Three Toothed Epidendrum

Flower Size 2 3/4" to 3.6" [7 to 9 cm]

Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guinea, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1500 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that is similar to and often made a synonym of Epidendrum nocturnum.

Synonyms *Epidendrum nocturnum var. tridens (Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn. 1898; Epidendrum nocturnum var. tumuc-humaciense Veyret 1983; Epidendrum tridens var. briegeri I.Bock 1982; Epidendrum tumuc-humaciense (Veyret) Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1996; Epidendrum tunguraguae Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as E tunguraguae; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 drawing as E latifolium; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as E carpophorum; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 326 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 376 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 379 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005

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