Epidendrum vandifolium Lindl. 1849 GROUP Anisatum
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Hagsater and The AMO Herbario Website
Another Inflorescence Photo by © Noble Bashor.
Common Name The Vanda Like Leaved Epidendrum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Sinaloa Mx., 1920m elev., near Devils Backbone on Mazatlan to Durango rd. epiphytic on oaks
Found in Sinaloa and Durango states of Mexico on the Pacific coast in pine-oak forests at elevations of 1100 to 1920 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a cane-like stem carrying several disitchous, linear, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, arcuate to pendant, racemose, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with scented flowers.
Part of the GROUP Anisatum but differs from E anisatum in a scent other than anise, wider leaves amd cuneate lip, instead of triangular and red to purple flowers with a darker disc and flowers.
Synonyms Epidendrum durangense Hágsater & Holman 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936; ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 9(2): 1984 as E durangense drawing/photo fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as E durangense; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez and Dressler 2005;
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