Epidendrum aristisepalum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 GROUP Coronatum SUBGROUP Aristisepalum

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

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Common Name The Awned Sepal Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 3000 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with cane-like, simple, terete below, laterally compressed above stem and carrying 7 to 8, all along the stem, sub-coriaceous, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, unequal, margin revolute leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, racemose, 1" [2.5 cm] long, erect, several flowered inflorescence with a much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bract and carrying 9 to 10 simultaneously opening, resupinate, fleshy cream green to brownish orange flowers.

"Epidendrum aristisepalum belongs to the GROUP Coronatum SUBGROUP Aristisepalum , which has a caespitose habit, simple stems, narrow, subcoriaceous leaves, a racemose inflorescence without spathes, and the sepals prominently aristate. The species has a 3-lobed, ecallose, 3-keeled lip, with the apical lobe semiorbicular and rounded, the leaves narrower. Epidendrum birostratum has leaves up to .6" [15 mm] wide, obtuse petals, lip with a prominent 2-lobed callus and the midlobe tridentate at the apex. Epidendrum aristoloides has narrower leaves and shorter sepals, petals rounded and the lip 4-lobed and bicallose" Hagsater etal 2001

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 412 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 413 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1446 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1488 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1504 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1527 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1689 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16(2) Plate 1699 Hagsater & Jimenez 2018 see recognition section

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