Epidendrum barbeyanum Kraenzl. 1895 Photo courtesy of Allen Black

Common Name Barbey-Boissier's Epidendrum [Swiss Orchid Collector late 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua in seasonally dry forests as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations around 500 to 1850 meters with a short stem carrying several [6 to 7], alternate, conduplicate below and basally clasping, oblong-elliptic, apically unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered, terminal inflorescence arising on a mature growth and carrying 5 to 10, simultaneous, nocturnally fragrant flowers in an umbel. Very similar to E difforme but differs in a smaller plant with large yellow green flowers and a lip that is twice as wide as E difforme and has lateral lobes that are much longer apically than the bilobed midlobe

Synonyms Epidendrum amparoanum Schlechter 1923; Neolehmannia barbeyana (Kraenzl.) Garay & Dunst. 1976

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 Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1052 Dodson 1984 as Neolehmannia barbeyana; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Epidendrum amparoanumIcones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 811 Hagsater 2006

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