Epidendrum antonense Hágsater 1993

Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

Common Name The Anton Epidendrum [The Anton Valley, Panama, species first found]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Panama on both sides of the continental divide in wet montane forests near rivers and above dams at elevations around 70 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte of the E paniculatum complex with a cane-like, erect, ancipitous stem mostly enveloped by scarious, tubular old leaf sheaths and carrying a few to several, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, grass-like, purple leaves that are basally clasping and blooms on a terminal, erect then arching, 4" [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence that can rebloom for years and has simultaneous, non-fragrant, resupinate flowers .

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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 *Icones Orchidacearum 2 The Genus Epidendrum Part 1 Plate 108 Hagsater 1993;