Epidendrum amayense Hágsater 1999 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website

Common Name The Cerro Del Padre Amaya Epidendrum [refers to the species location in Colombia]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloudforests at elevations around 3150 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, cane-like, terete stems producing a new stem from the middle of the previous stem carrying 4 to 5, distichous, towards the apex of the stem, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, racemose, occuring only once, short, terete, nutant, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, narrowly-triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying 5 to 6, simultaneously opening,yellowish green flowers.

"Epidendrum amayense belongs to the 1999 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula characterized by the successive lateral growths arising from the middle of the previous stem and carrying a few leaves aggregate towards the apex that blooms on an arching, terminal inflorescence with membraneous, colorful flowers with a bicallose lip. The species has greenish, fleshy flowers and is close to E. curtisii but has single veined and narrower .6" [1.5 mm] petals and lacks calli. Epidendrum envigadoense Hágsater has wider .14" [3.5 mm], 3-veined petals, and has small, globular calli. Epidendrum pomecense Hágsater has similar sized, successive opening flowers, with 3-nerved sepals and a differently proportioned, bicallose lip, with a cuneate mid-lobe." Hagsater etal 1999

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidaceaum 3 Plate 303 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 330 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section;Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 344 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 834 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 927 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1452 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017; Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1860 Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 see recognition section

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