Epidendrum ibaguense Kunth

Variable terrestrial or epiphytic herbs with stems from about 0.1 to 1 m. long, erect, pendent or sprawling. Stems simple or branched, usually slender and leaf-bearing on the newer growths, provided with long whitish roots which orig-inate opposite the bases of some of the leaves, or rarely without these roots. Leaves 1.5-12 cm. long and 0.6-3.5 cm. broad, ligulate to oval or oblong to ovate, obtuse, fleshy, lax or crowded. Inflorescence a lax to short subumbellate or paniculate raceme borne at the apex of a scape which may be up to 1 m. long; scape slender, tetete, covered with scarious, appressed bracts or becoming naked, often branched. Flowers variable in size and color, from red to white but most often brick-red. Dorsal sepal 12-22 mm. long and 4-7 mm. broad, elliptic or oblong to narrowly obovate, acute. Lateral sepals similar but slightly oblique. Petals 12-20 mm. long and 5-8 mm. broad, elliptic to obovate, acute. Lip unguiculate, the claw adnate to the column; lamina 7-17 mm. long and as broad, 3-lobed, suborbicular-cordate in outline; the lateral lobes large, rounded, larger than the mid-lobe, the margins entire or usually lacerate; mid-lobe usually oblong in outline, bilobulate with the lobules slighty divergent, entire or usually lacerate, equalling or exceeding the tips of the lateral lobes in length; disc provided with 2 flattened submammillate calluses at the apex of the column and usually with 2 inconspicuous lamellate calluses extending from the apex of the column toward the apex of the lip.