Palm

GROUP Compressum

Characterized by the caespitose habit, simple cane-like, laterally compressed stems, the few leaves along the stem (1-5 leaves), the large lax flowered panicle, the lip deeply 3-lobed, the lobes parallel to and surrounding the column in natural position.

  1. Epidendrum compressum Griseb. 1864

References Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1861 & 1861a Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 See recognition Section

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