Epidendrum polyanthostachyum

Found in southwestern Colombia on the Pacific slope of the Cordillera Occidental at elevations of 1100 to 2050 meters as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte with canelike, erect, straight, terete, branching when mature stems enveloped by non-foliaceous, striated, rugose sheaths and carrying all along the main and branching stems, alternate, articulate, subcoriaceous, unequal in size, narrowly elliptic, acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall and again in the later spring on a terminal, on the main stem and branches, racemose, erect, occuring only once, peduncle .8" [2 cm] long, subterete, thin, erect, straight, the base provided with a single bract similar to the floral bracts, rachis 5.6" [14 cm] long, cylindrical, 6.4 to 7.2" [16 to 18 cm] long, densely, simultaneously 35 to 40 flowered flowered inflorescence with as long as the ovary, triangular ovate, short-acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.