Epidendrum vulcanicola A.H.Heller 1968

GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Polychlamys Drawing by © Drawing by Heller and The Epidendra Website

MID to LATE

Common Name The Volocano Residing Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with successive lateral, simple, cane-like, terete, thin stem enveloped basally by tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying in the upper half, 4 to 5, alternate, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the mid to late spring on a terminal, occuring only once, racemose, distichous, slightly arching, short, few flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by 4 imbricating bracts similar to the much longer than the ovary, progressively shorter above, narrowly ovate, acute, conduplicate, glumaceous, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying 3 to 5 successivcely opening, resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconse Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 744 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 999 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 drawing fide;

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