Epidendrum atwoodii Hágsater & L.Sánchez 1999 GROUP Difforme
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TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
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Common Name Atwood’s Epidendrum [American, Selby director OIS current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in wet forests at elevations around 650 to 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with simple, reed-like, terete, slightly flexuous stems carrying 5 to 8, linear to lanceolate, basally conduplicate, acute, slightly recurved leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, arising on a mature cane, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with a much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acute floral bracts.
"Epidendrum atwoodii is part of GROUP Difforme c haracterized by the caespitose, sympodial plants, fleshy, pale green to glaucous leaves, apical inflorescence, sessile, rarely with a short peduncle, one-flowered to many-flowered, and then corymbose, without spathaceous bracts, fleshy, green to yellowish-green rarely white flowers. This species can be recognized by the linear to lanceolate leaves, successively single, greenish-white flower, ovary dilated, lanceolate sepals, linear petals, adnate to the basal third of the column, 3-lobed, flabellate lip, fimbriate, prominent c1inandrium. It is similar to Epidendrum mantis-religiosae which has narrowlly ovate sepals, narrowly ligulate petals adnate to the basal of the column, ovate lip, erose, short c1inandrium." Hagsarter etal 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidaceaeum 3 Plate 311 Hagsater, Sanchez and Garcia-Cruz 1999 drawing fide; Manual de las Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 954 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section;
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