Epidendrum brachyglossum Lindl. 1844 is a species of Epidendrum orchid native to the western slopes of the Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and has been reported at altitudes ranging from 1.8 km, near Ocaña, Ayacucho, Peru,Reichenbach, H. G "ORCHIDES" in Müller, C., Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae Tomus VI (1861) Berlin. p. 362, Nr. 173 to 2.8 km, in Cajamarca, Peru.Dodson, C., & Bennett, D. "EPIDENDRUM BRACHYBLOSSUM Lindl.", Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0059, Missosuri Botanical Garden, Lt. Louis, MO. 1989
