Epidendrum brachypodum

Found in west central Colombia on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in cloud forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, ancipitose, wide, straight stems carrying numerous, all along the stem, alternate, articulate, elliptic, oblong, rounded apically leaves that blooms in the spring [probably throughout the year] on a terminal and lateral, racemose, producing successive racemes in time, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long including the short peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence enveloped by, tubular at the base, conduplicate above, imbricating, ancipitose, subacute bracts and has much shorter than the ovary, conduplicate, subacute, imbricating floral bracts.