Medium sized epiphyte. Pseudobulbs ellipsoid or pear-shaped, to 26 cm long, compressed, loosely spaced. Leaves 2-4, elliptic to lanceolate, to 40 cm long, to 5 cm wide. Flowers few-many, to 7.5 cm long; most of year. Sepals and petals similar, linear-lanceolate, drooping, mostly pale green. Labellum entire, erect, midlobe almost round, concave, yellowish with purple veins.

Florida, C America,West Indies, S America

E. baculus (Rchb. f.) Dressler &Pollard from Mexico, C and S America is a medium to large epiphyte with erect inflorescences of usually 2 back-to-back flowers that are white to cream with red markings on the labellum [E. pentotis (Rchb. f.) Dressler]; E. fragrans (Sw.) LemÃĩe from Mexico, C America, S America and the West Indies is a medium sized epiphyte with 1-leafed pseudobulbs, erect 2? 6 flowered inflorescences and flowers that are mostly white or cream with reddish veins on the labellum.

Source: Jeanes, J. (2005). Orchidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.