Epidendrum cardiochilum L.O. Williams 1940 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name The Heart-Shaped Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in southern Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in montane cloud foresets at elevations around 500 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform, thickened pseudobulb-like stems enveloped basally by scarious, acuminate sheaths and carrying above, 2 to 3 apical, linear-oblong to ligulate, obtuse and retuse apically, carinate, basally clasping leaves and blooms on a short, terminal, few flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises on a newly forming stem in the winter. Chiapas MX., 1280m elev., El Sumidero, seedling from a fallen branch.

Synonyms Epidendrum segoviense Heller 1968

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 708 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 570 Hagsater, Soto 2002