Epidendrum kolanowskae Hágsater, O.Pérez & E.Santiago 2013 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum
Photo/TYPE Drawing by Perez and The AMO Herbaria Website
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Common Name Kolanowska’s Epidendrum [Polish Female Orchid Botanist Current]
Flower Size 1” [2.5 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 1770 to 2050 as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with simple, cane-like, terete, straight stems carrying 7 to 13, all along the apical half, articulate, alternate, erect spreading, amplexicaul, green and concolor in youth, with age the underside becomes purple, orbicular to elliptic, acute, subcoriaceous, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a terminal, racemose to paniculate, occuring only once, without a spathe, peduncle 2.8” [7 cm] long, elongate, straight thin, provided with 2 lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul bracts, rachis 7.6” [19 cm] long, when paniculate with a spreading basal, short, few flowered branch subtended by a narrowly triangular, acuminate, amplexicaul bract, lax, simultaneously 8 to 17 flowered inflorescence with prominent, unequal in size, basally half as long as the ovary, apically 1/4 as long as the ovary, linear-triangular, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers with the tepals and the basal half of the column green, the lip and apical half of the column surrounded by pale purple spots spilling onto the lobes.
"Epidendrum kolanowskae belongs to the GROUP Pseudepidendrum , which is characterized by caespitose plants, canelike stems, acute to acuminate leaves, apical inflorescence without spathaceous bract, the petals filiform and the lip usually 3-lobed, with 3 parallel fleshy ribs, the apical lobe often bifurcate, and the pollinia “bird-wing-type”, and SUBGROUP Paniculatum, which has bicolor flowers (generally green with the lip and apex of the column white), the disc sometimes marked with purple to red. The species is recognized by the intermediate sized plants, the racemose or paniculate inflorescence, leaves orbicular to elliptic, disc of the lip with 3 ribs, surrounded by pale purple spots spilling onto the lobes. Epidendrum weerakitianum Hágsater, O.Pérez & E.Santiago always has elliptic leaves; sepals 3-veined, the lip with 5 ribs on the disc which is clearly marked with purple turning reddish-purple with age. Epidendrum paniculorotundifolium has orbicular-elliptic leaves, sepals 5-veined, and the disc of the lip also has 3 ribs, but the lip is immaculate. It is similar to Epidendrum paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. which has elliptic leaves, the lip marked with reddish-purple, the lateral lobes of the lip sub-orbicular and the mid-lobe bilobed, formed by a pair of strongly divaricate, falcate lobes; it is endemic to northwestern Peru." Hagsater etal 2013
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1447 Hagsater, Perez & Santiago 2013 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1467 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1469 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1495 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 drawing fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo fide;
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