Epidendropsis vincentina (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1976 GROUP Violascens Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name Saint Vincent's Epidendropsis

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

I collected this plant in the Dominican Republic where it was found as a reed stem epiphyte of warm wet montane forests, often in disturbed sites, so best grown in warm conditions, but it is found in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia? as well at elevations of 700 to 1400 meters with an elongate, branching stem carrying narrowly ellptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an apical, 1 3/4" [4 cm] long, branched, several flowered inflorescence arising a a mature stem with simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms *Epidendrum vincentinum Lindl. 1841; Epidendrum serricardium Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum vincentinum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 218. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum serricardium; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Epidendrum vincentinum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum vincentinum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 372 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002 as Epidendrum vincentinum; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1196 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 as Epidendrum vincentinum

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