Epidendrum santaclarense Ames 1923 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Mirabile
Inflorescence Photos by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Webpage
Detail Of Inflorescence Specimen by © The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name The Santa Clara Epidendrum [A Town in Costa Rica]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Chiapas Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 900 to 2600 meters as a giant sized, warm to cold growing, hanging epiphtye with a pendent, somewhat branching, cane-like, terete stem producing 1 to 2 new stems from the middle internode, carrying 9 to 12, all along the main and secondary and tertiary stems, all sub-coriaceous, smooth, unequally sized, oblong-ligulate, obtuse to bilobed, entire marginally leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, open distichous, 2.4 to 3.2 " [6 to 8 cm] long inflorescence with 2, imbricating, tubular, obtuse bracts and not imbricating, as long as or slightly shorter than the ovary, ovate, rounded floral bacts and carrying 6 to 10, simultaneously opening, resupinate, fragrant flowers.
Recognized by the large, hanging, branching plants with sub-coriaceous leaves, a racemose, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising on the flowering branches, tubular, non-imbricate, the same size as the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant, greenish yellow to green flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 735 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropoicarum Plate 1327 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Manual de las Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez and Dressler 2005; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1382 Hagsater & Sanchez 2010 drawing ok; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
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