Epidendrum albertii Schltr. 1923 NO PHOTO

Common Name or Meaning Albert's Epidendrum [Mr Brenes, Costa Rican Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 3/8" [10mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or rarely lithophyte on rocks over stream or epiphyte in wet primary montane forests with a cane-like, flattened stem enveloped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying broadly ovate, red beneath, distichous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, and axillary, short, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence enveloped below by several, large, imbricate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 372 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 903 Hagsater 2007