Epidendrum atonum Hágsater & Dodson 2004 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Weak Epidendrum [refers to the sepals and petals limp appearance]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, cane-likie, ancipitous, sinuous stem carrying 2 to 4, on the upper half of the stem, alternate, coriaceous, smooth, ovate-elliptic, rounded, concave leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, racemose, successively single, few flowered, slighly ac=rcuate inflorescence arising thougha large tubular, ancipitous, acute, papyraeceous spathe and has to 10, resupinate, non-fragrant, droopy flowers.

Part of the Epidendrum excisum group, longiflorum subgroup

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, *Icones Orchidacearum Part 4 Plate 708 Hagsater 2004