Epidendrum anceps Jacq. 1763 Photo courtesy of Eladio M. Fernandez © 2005 Dominican Republic
Orange cultivar Florida Photo courtesy of Stephen Jones.
Brown Cultivar, Deflexed Sepals and Petals Costa Rica Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name Brown Epidendrum or Double-Edged Epidendrum - Dingy Flowered Star Orchid - Dingy-Flowered Epidendrum
Flower Size 1/2" [6 cm]
A Florida native, also found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a medium sized, caespitose, warm to cold growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte occuring in cypress swamps and damp montane and tropical rain forests at altitudes up to 2000 meters, with erect, ancipitous, stems enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying several to many, lanceolate, basally clasping leaves that graduate in size from the base and blooms throughout the year on an apical, 9" [22.5 cm] long, terminal, subumbellate, racemose inflorescence that is covered with several scarious, imbicate, acuminate sheaths and carries many, small, fragrant [old stale straw], flowers clustered at the apex and blooms repeatedly from the old inflorescence over a few years.
Synonyms Amphiglottis anceps [Jacq.]Britt 1924; Amphiglottis lurida Salisb. 1812; Cattleya galeottiana Beer 1854; Epidendrum amphistomum A. Rich 1850; Epidendrum anceps var viridipurpureum [Hkr.]Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum cearense Barb. Rod. 1881; Epidendrum ensatum Rich & Gal. 1845; Epidendrum fuscatum Sm. 1791; Epidendrum fuscatum var. virescens Lodd. ex Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum galeottianum A. Rich. & Galeotii 1845; Epidendrum patens Sw [non HKR.]Epidendrum schenckianum Krzl. 1909; Epidendrum schreineri Barb. Rodr. 1881; Epidendrum secundum Sw. 1760; Epidendrum secundum ssp Breigeri H. Dietrich 1992; Epidendrum virescens Lodd. 1832; Epidendrum viridipurpureum Hooker 1838; Tritelandra fuscata (Sm.) Raf. 1837
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as E. patens; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E musciferum; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Planetarum Troipcarum Plate 072 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 707 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 448 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002 as E musciferum; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005
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