Epidendrum restrepoanum A.D.Hawkes 1957 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea

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Older flowers in situ greater Medellin Area 5/14

Inflorescence in situ greater Medellin Area 5/14

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Cited as E podocarpophilum Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar

Drawing

Drawing by © Eric Hagsater and The Herbario AMO WEbsite

Common Name Restrepo's Epidendrum [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and northernmost Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with branching, canelike, terete, straight, thin, new stems produced from near the apex of the previous stem stems and carrying 3 to 6, distributed towards the upper half of the stem, alternate, subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, bilobed apically, low dorsal keel, margin entire leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, occuring only once, racemose, arching-nutant, peduncle very short, terete, thin, .8" [2 cm] long, simultaneously 6 to 13 flowered inflorescence with half as long as the ovary, narrowly triangular, acuminate floral bracts.

"Epidendrum restrepoanum belongs to the GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea, which is characterized by the branching plants linear-lanceolate to oblong leaves the apex bilobed, racemose, arching-nutant inflorescence, membranaceous, rarely fleshy flowers, the entire to 3-lobed, ecallose lip with the margin erose and with or without 1 to 10 thin, smooth to erose keels, the column completely free to obliquely united to the lip, the anther reniform. The species is recognized by the small, scarlet-red flowers, with a yellow lip and column, dorsally pustulate sepals, deeply cordate, somewhat three-lobed lip, shallowly emarginate and 5 to 7 keeled, the three central ones longer, and the dorsal sepal nearly as wide as it is long and round. It closely resembles Epidendrum oxysepalum Hágsater & E.Santiago which is superficially similar, but has smooth sepals, a subcordiform, apiculate lip with three or five parallel keels at the base and narrow, acute sepals. It has been confused with Epidendrum podocarpophilum from of Azuay province of Ecuador, which has glabrous sepals and the apical half of the lip papillate and with three parallel keels. Epidendrum pseudoglobiflorum Hágsater & Dodson from around Loja province of Ecuador, has trumpet-shaped, reddish flowers. Epidendrum lophotropis Hagsater & Dodson has pale orange flowers, 7 crested keels on the lip, with the 3 central keels strongly nodulose. Epidendrum caesaris Hágsater & E.Santiago has pink-yellow, translucent, flowers with dorsally pustulate sepals." Hagsater etal 2007

Synonyms Epidendrum coccineum Rchb.f. 1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 68 Schlechter 1919 as E coccineaum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 245 Schlechter 1920 as E coccineum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela, an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E podocarpohilum photo fide; Venezuela, Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Romero & Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 709 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 756 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 772 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Orquideologia 24: 3 Ortiz & Hagsater 2005 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 837 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 9 Plate 915 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 979 Hagsater 2007 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1277 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1499 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing fide;

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