Epidendrum anceps Jacq.
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Caespitose epiphytes with erect, strongly compressed stems to 70 cm. Leaves many, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, green, variably suffused with red, graduating in size, to 15 X 4 cm. Inflorescences terminal panicles of subumbellate branches produced sequentially. Flowers small, fleshy, greenish-brown suffused with red; sepals oblanceolate-oblong, acute, the lateral sepals oblique, 6.5 X 3 mm; petals linear-narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, 6 X 0.8 mm; lip 3-lobed, with 3-lobulate midlobe, concave, 5 X 5 mm, the lateral lobes transversely elliptic, the midlobe of 3 parallel lobules. Fl (Aug, Oct). Because of a complex nomenclatural problem, this plant has also been called E. secundum Jacquin.