Epidendrum acunae Dressler 1959

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Common Name Acuna's Epidendrum {Cuban Enginer and Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Florida [extinct], Cuba, Mexico [Vera Cruz & Chiapas], Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in tropical rainforests, always near water at elevationsof sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium to giant sized, pendant and hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, pendant, branching, cane-like stem enveloped entirely by leaf-bearing sheaths each carrying, distichous, narrowly lanceolate, bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, short, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 imbricate, conduplicate bracts

Synonyms Spathiger roigii Acuña 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Catalogo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1939 as Spathiger Roigii; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 808 Hamer 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 26 Hagsater 1990; Orchids of Cuba Laramendi & LLamacho 2005; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater 2005

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