Epidendrum anthropophorum Rchb.f. 1856

Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name The Humman-Like Epidendrum [refers to the shape of the lip]

Flower Size 3/16" [1 cm]

This small to medium sized, epiphytc species is found in Southwestern Ecuador on the westeren facing slopes in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2400 to 2800 meters as a cold growing epiphyte with branching, cane-like, terete stems carrying 9 to 10, placed in the upper 2/3's, oblong-lanceolate, bilobed apically, smooth leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, short, racemose, subglomerose inflorescence with simultaneously opening 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 807 Hagsater 2006