Epidendrum nagelii L.O.Williams 1941 Photo by Lourens Grobler ©

Inflorescence Photo by Eric Hunt plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Common Name Nagel's Epidendrum [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras as a large sized, warm to cool cool growing terrestrial on grassy slopes and rocky banks in forests and thickets or epiphyte at elevations of 1200 to 2370 meters with clustered, cane-like, terete, thin, erect stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying 10 to 28, distichous, articulate, erect spreading, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, basally clasping leaves and blooms on a terminal, erect, branched, 18" [45 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers arising in the summer.

Synonyms Epidendrum myriantchum Hkr. ex Gajon Sanches Mejores 1930; *Epidendrum myrianthum Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum verrucosum var. myrianthum (Lindl.) Ames & Correll 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing as Epidendrum myrianthum; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum myrianthum drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 815 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum myrianthum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 856 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum myrianthum drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 856 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum myrianthum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 897 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum myrianthum

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