Epidendrum carolii Schltr. 1923 Photo courtesy of Joe Linger

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Common Name Carol's Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/8" [1.75 cm]

Found in Jalisco, and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in open wet montane oak forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clumped, terete stems enveloped by a few, acuminate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2+ , apical, narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the spring through fall on a simple, racemose [rarely branched], 8"+ [20 cm+] long, slender, few to several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane and carrying small, resupinate, slightly scented flowers.

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 I Plate 27 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1018 Dodson 1984