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(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
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Species
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EPIDENDRUM PRISMATOCARPUM Reichb. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Zeit. 10:729. 1852
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Reference
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Reichb. f. Xenia Orch. 2:83, t. I23, 1862; Hook. in Bot. Mag. 88: t. 5336. 1862.
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Description
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Stout repent or caespitose epiphytic herbs up to about 5 dm. tall. Pseudobulbs up to about 15 cm. long and 5 cm. in diameter, narrowly ovoid, often attenuated above, bi-trifoliate, the leaves somewhat separated on the apex of the bulb. Leaves 12-33 cm. long and 2-6 cm. broad, variable, from ligulate and oblanceolate- oblong to narrowly ovate, obtuse, coriaceous. Inflorescence an erect, few- to many-flowered rareme. Dorsal sepals 22-44 mm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, nar- rowly lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, arcuate. Petals 20-28 mm. long and 3-5 mm. Ibroad, elliptic-linear to lanceolate, acute, arcuate. Lip 18-25 mm. long and 7-9 mm. broad, 3-lobed, free from the column nearly to the base, subsagittate, with a central callus from the base nearly to the apex; middle lobe large, trulliform, acuminate.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: "Province of Chiriqui", alt. 1200-1360 m., Powell 99, 101, 3375, 3388, 3391, 3402; "Chiriqui", Warscewicz; near El Volcain, White 203; Casita Alta to Cerro Copete, alt. 2300-3300 m., Woodson & Schery 375.
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Note
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Allied to E. brassavolae. One of the commonest of the Epidendrums in culti- vation in greenhouses. It is a good bloomer and ,grows well, the flowers occasionally being sold as cut flowers in the northern markets.
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