Epidendrum angaritae Hágsater 1999 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Photos by © Lourens Grobler TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website Common Name Angarita's Epidendrum [Colombian Orchid Collector Current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with laterally compressed towards the apex, erect, cane-like stems enveloped completely by imbricating leafless to leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, acuminate, deep reddish-green, longitudinally veined leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, 6" [15 cm], recurring on the same inflorescence, racemose, rarely paniculate inflorescence arising on a mature pseduobulb and carrying 3 to 16, successively opening flowers with several open at any one time.
"Epidendrum angaritae is a member of the GROUP Pseudepidendrum , has olive-green to brown sepals .6 to .68" [15 to 17 mm] long, petals and base
of column light green and with apical half and lip creamy white, with the disc
finely striped with purple, forming a very fine pattern. The lip is much wider
across the apical lobes .92" [23 mm] which are horizontal, than across the lateral
lobes .52" [13 mm]. It is unusual because of the few flowers and the inflorescence
which normally produces a lax-flowered raceme, and then continues
producing further racemes over a period of several years, thus combining a
feature typical of the SUBGROUP Turialvae and quite uncommon in
the SUBGROUP Paniculatum, therefore linking both subgroups. Other species
in the area of Medellín with paniculate inflorescences include E. laeve with dirty pink flowers and E. lopezii Hágsater with flowers grayish
inside, pinkish outside, the disk of the lip green with purple callus and keels." Hagsater etal 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 307 Hagsater 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1330 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1347 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section;
Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1352 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1366 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1428 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section;
Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1464 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section;
Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1467 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section;
Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1479 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section;
Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
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