Epidendrum nocturnum Jacq., Enum. Syst. Pl. 29 (1760).
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| Epidendrum nocturnum Jacq., Photo by Shashidhar Sastry |
its native range is S. Florida, Mexico to Tropical America.
Latin Name:
Epidendrum nocturnum Jacq.
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Amphiglottis nocturna (Jacq.) Britton
Auliza nocturna (Jacq.) Small
Epidendrum bahiense Rchb.f.
Epidendrum carolinianum Lam.
Epidendrum discolor A.Rich. & Galeotti
Epidendrum leucarachne Schltr.
Epidendrum nocturnum var. angustifolium Stehlé
Epidendrum nocturnum var. minor Schltr.
Epidendrum obtusifolium Willd.
Nyctosma nocturna (Jacq.) Raf.
English Name:
Night Scented Epidendrum.
Description:
With a leafy, compressed, erect stem enveloped basally by a few tubular, scarious, acuminate sheaths and carrying leathery, linear-oblong to oblong-ligulate, sessile, acute leaves held towards the apex of the stem that blooms in the summer through fall with a terminal, to 2 cm long, occassionally branched, 1 to few flowered raceme which can produce flowers for more than one season, giving rise to, fragrant eucalyptus to anise scented (often nocturnally), large, showy, successively opening flowers occuring over months on newly mature and older pseudbulbs.
Distribution:
Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Ecological:
In wet montane forests as a large sized, reedstem, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 2000 m, but at higher elevations it is found on rocks in leaf detrius.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the summer through.
Flower size:
13.5 cm.
Cultivation:
Plants grow in cool to warm conditions and can be grown in medium size fir bark with perlite. Plant prefers drying periods between watering and bright light.
Type Information:
Collector Team:
N. J. Jacquin s.n.
Type Herbaria:
lectotype W?
Chosen By:
Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. Gen. Epidendrum 129. 1936
Distribution Of Types:
Martinique
Bahia Epidendrum bahiense K000294047 holotype
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/30010607-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:650579-1
https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2018/01/epidendrum-nocturnum-care-and-culture.html
http://orchidspecies.com/epinocturmun.htm
https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Epidendrum_nocturnum
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