GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Polychlamys

Characterized by the successive lateral growths arising from the middle of the previous stem carrying a few leaves towards the apex and has a distichous, apical inflorescence with prominent, conduplicate, acute, glumaceous floral bracts

  1. Epidendrum atwoodchlamys Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica

  2. Epidendrum barbae Rchb.f. 1866 Costa Rica Panama

  3. Epidendrum bugabense Hágsater 1993 Panama

  4. Epidendrum cryptanthum L.O.Williams 1942 Costa Rica Panama

  5. Epidendrum dolichochlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Costa Rica

  6. Epidendrum estrellense Ames 1923 Costa Rica

  7. Epidendrum gymnochlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Panama

  8. Epidendrum lutheri Hágsater 1993 Panama

  9. Epidendrum neoporpax Ames 1934 Cuba Hispanola

    hmmm Said to be in GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Octomerioides but to me why not in Group porpax?

  10. Epidendrum octomerioides Schltr. 1907 Honduras Nicaragua, Costa Rica Panama Colombia

  11. Epidendrum polychlamys Schltr. 1906 Costa Rica Panama

  12. Epidendrum puteum Standl. & L.O.Williams 1953 Costa Rica

  13. Epidendrum salpichlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Costa Rica

  14. Epidendrum sigmoideum Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica

    Epidendrum vulcanicola A.H.Heller 1968 Nicaragua Costa Rica

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 725 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 744 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1325 Atwood 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 115 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 154 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 310 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 381 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 829 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 839 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 883 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 911 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 924 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 934 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 967 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 976 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 999 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section;

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