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Orchid Species: Epidendrum crispilabium

Kew currently accepted name is Prosthechea squalida

Epidendrum crispilabium is an orchid species identified by A.Rich. & Galeotti in 1845. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Prosthechea squalida.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
crispilabium
Parents
Species
Author
A.Rich. & Galeotti
Year
1845
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ORIGIN: Found as a warm to cold growing, small to medium sized epiphyte or ocassional lithophyte on rocks on hillsides and ravines found at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters in Nayarit, Jalisco, Coloma, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Moreles, Oaxaca and Vera Cruz states of Mexico in various forest types.

DESCRIPTION: Found as a warm to cold growing, small to medium sized epiphyte or ocassional lithophyte on rocks on hillsides and ravines found at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters in Nayarit, Jalisco, Coloma, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Moreles, Oaxaca and Vera Cruz states of Mexico in various forest types with ellipsoid-fusiform pseudobulbs that are spaced 3/4 to 1 apart and carrying 1 to 4, apical, narrowly ligular-elliptic leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a terminal, 4 to 6 [10 to 15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying five to twelve, inconspicuously fragrant flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.8 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Prosthechea Psh squalida 2008 (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar
Add+ Pseudencyclia Pde linkiana 2003 (Klotzsch) V.P.Castro & Chiron
Add+ Pollardia Poll linkiana 2004 (Klotzsch) Withner & P.A.Harding
Add+ Prosthechea Psh linkiana 1998 (Klotzsch) W.E.Higgins
Add+ Encyclia E linkiana 1918 (Klotzsch) Schltr.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi linkianum 1838 Klotzsch
Add+ Epidendrum Epi squalidum 1825 Lex. in P.de La Llave & J.M.de Lexarza
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Psh. squalida 'Eckhard' (2 awards from 2016 to 2017) Psh. squalida 'Karin Nebel' (2018)
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