GROUP Spathiger SUBGROUP Coriifolium

Chracterized by the sympodial habit, coriaceosu leaves, and the racmose, distichous inflorescence carrying fleshy green to purplish flowers

  1. Epidendrum allochronum Hágsater 1993 Costa Rica and Panama

  2. Epidendrum alvarezdeltoroi Hágsater 2001 Mexico

  3. Epidendrum amazonicoriifolium Hágsater 2001 Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela and Peru

  4. Epidendrum belloi Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica Panama

  5. Epidendrum beharorum Hágsater 1993 Guatemala Mexico

  6. Epidendrum bilobatum Ames 1924 Costa Rica

  7. Epidendrum caluerorum Hágsater 1993 Panama

  8. Epidendrum circinatum Ames 1924 Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia

  9. Epidendrum coriifolium Lindl. 1851 Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela

  10. Epidendrum croatii Hágsater 1999 Panama

  11. Epidendrum fuscopurpureum Schltr. 1922 Costa Rica

  12. Epidendrum galeochilum Hagsater & Dressler 2004 Panama

  13. Epidendrum imitans Schltr. 1921 French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru

  14. Epidendrum magnibracteatum Ames 1922 Costa Rica

  15. Epidendrum palmidium Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica

  16. Epidendrum pleurothalloides Hágsater 1993 Panama

  17. Epidendrum summerhayesii Hágsater 1993 Costa Rica Panama

  18. Epidendrum synchronum Hágsater 2004 Costa Rica

  19. Epidendrum vexillium Hágsater 1999 Panama Colombia

  20. Epidendrum villotae Hágsater & Dodson 1999 Costa Rica Panama Colomia and Ecuador

GROUP Spathiger SUBGROUP Lockhartioides

  1. Epidendrum aporum Garay 1969

  2. Epidendrum lockhartioides Schltr. 1923 Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum scalpelligerum Rchb.f. 1865 Cuba Jamaica

GROUP Spathiger SUBGROUP Rigidum

  1. Epidendrum angustisegmentum (L.O.Williams) Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica & Panama

  2. Epidendrum cardiophorum Schltr. 1911

  3. Epidendrum mocinoi Hágsater 1999 southern Mexico

  4. Epidendrum nitens Rchb.f. 1866 Mexico Belize and Guatemala

  5. Epidendrum rigidum Jacq. 1760 Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 095 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 0734 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 530 Hamer 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1019 Hamer 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1322 Atwood 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 041 Hagsater & Sanchez 1990 see recognition section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1430 Atwood 1992; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 042 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 104 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 112 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 116 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 127 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 174 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 189 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 313 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 328 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 364 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 395 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 357 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 398 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 398 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 408 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 409 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 738 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 793 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 914 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1106 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1111 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1139 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1154 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1311 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1361 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 see recognition section ;

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