Epidendrum stamfordianum Bateman 1838 GROUP Psilanthemum
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Common Name Stamford's Epidendrum [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size to more than 1 1/2" [more than 3.75 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, in seasonally dry forests on large branches at elevations of 20 to 800 meters, as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, elliptic-oblong leaves that blooms in the winter, spring, summer and fall arising from the base of a newly formed, mature pseudobulb; one of a few species to do this in the genus Epidendrum; to 24" [60 cm] long, many flowered raceme or panicle of showy, long-lasting, fragrant flowers.
This species grows best mounted on wood with semi-shady conditions and needs a semi rest in the winter from water and fertilizer. This plant can become dormant after collecting and sit for up to 2 years before responding to cultivation.
"Epidendrum slamrordianum belongs to the GROUP Psilanthemum which is characterized by the sympodial, caespitose habit, the somewhat thickened, fusiform stems, pseudobulbs with narrow, apically bilobed, subcoriaceous leaves distributed on the distal half of the stems, large, apical, erect, paniculate inflorescence, usually produced from an abortive stem, greenish-yellow to pink f1owers, with deeply 4-lobed lips. The species has fusiform pseudobulbs, with 2 to 4, widely elliptic, apical leaves, the inflorescence apparently basal, but arising from an abortive stem, rarely, In cultivation, from normal stems; sepals and petals green with purple spots, the lip lemon-yellow the creamy-white with violaceous spots and lines on the callus and midlobe; lateral lobes of the lip with outer margin entire, inner margin erose, midlobe flabellate, separated from the lateral lobes by a deep sinus, with the apex bilobed, margin erose. It closely resembles Epidendrum leeanum (Rchb.f.) Hágsater from the llanos orientales of eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela which has shorter pseudobulbs, and a short compact inflorescence of smaller pink fiowers." Hagsater etal 2008
Synonyms Auliza stamfordiana (Bateman) Brieger 1977; Epidendrum basilare Klotzsch 1843; Epidendrum cycnostachys Benth. 1881; Epidendrum cycnostalix Rchb.f 1852; Epidendrum stamfordianum var. lawrenceanum hort. ex Stein 1892; Epidendrum stamfordianum Batem. var parviflorum Regel 1856; Epidendrum stamfordianum var. pictum Lem. 1852; Epidendrum stamfordianum var. pictum Ram.Goyena 1911; Epidendrum stamfordianum var. wallacei Rchb. f. 1887; Psilanthemum basilare (Klotzsch) Stein 1892
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