Epidendrum annabellae Nir 1994 Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillannae

Common Name Annabell's Epidendrum [Wife of Dr Donald Dod and Discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Endemic to Hispanola in pine forests at elevations around 2200 to 2300 meters as a samll sized, branching caespitose, erect, cold growing epiphyte with branching from the middle, basally monopodial and terete, few leafed stems completly enveloped by inflated sheaths and carrying a few, disitichous, rigid, coriaceous, oblong-ligulate, aubacute, conduplicate below into the base leaves which blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, arching, few flowered, racemose inflorescence with triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying 3 to 5, resupinate flowers.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 806 Hagsater 2006