Epidendrum anoglossum Schltr. 1911 Photo courtesy Daniel Jimenz

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Common Name The Lip-less Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in elfin and cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 3200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing orchid with an erect stem enveloped basally by several tubulbar, loose, acuminate sheaths and carry a few, towards the apex, fleshy, linear, obtuse, abaxially keeled, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on a terminal, racemose, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence with subulate, inflated floral bracts and non-resupinate, simultaneous, distichous, non fragrant flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1316 Atwood 1992 as Epidendrum anaglossum; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 908 Hagsater 2007