Epidendrum citrosmum Hágsater 1988 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Common Name The Lemon-Scented Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Oaxaca Mx., 619m elev., near Amusgos, at west end of Putla rd.,

Found on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico in tropical semideciduous and deciduous forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a simple, terete, slightly flexuous, cane-like stem carrying a few, narrowly elliptic, retuse, coriaceous, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on a terminal, short, racemose, few to several flowered, subcorymbose inflorescence that bloom simultaneously with 5 to 20, fragrant [lemon tree], resupinate, bright green 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 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 571 Hagsater, Soto 2002