Epidendrum vidal-senegei Hágsater 1999 GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Pergracile

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name Vidal-Senege's Epidendrum [French Orchid Collector late 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in either Ecuador or Peru but without locational data as a medium sized epiphyte? with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, new stem arising from the intermediate internode of the previous stem and carrying about 7, all along the upper half of the stem, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, margin crenulate leaves that blooms on a terminal, arising through 1 to 2, narrow, acute, tubular spathes, on a mature stem, racemose, arching, occuring only once, rachis un-ornamented, 7.6 to 9.6" [19 to 24 cm] long, overall, simultaneously about 20 flowered inflorescence with more or less as long as the ovary, triangular-acuminate floral bracts and carrying flowers with the lip always facing the axis of the peduncle and without color or fragrance data.

"Epidendrum vidal-senegei is part of the GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Pergracile and distinguished by the stout stem with wider, crenulate leaves, the bicallose lip and the midlobe narrowly rectangular. It is similar to Epidendrum pergracile which has lanceolate, acute leaves with an entire margin, and the lip tricallose and the midlobe triangular." Hagsater etal 1999

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 396 Hagsater 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 440 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 480 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 716 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1424 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section;

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