Epidendrum macroceras Schltr. 1920 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Drawing by © Jimenez and The Herbario AMO Publications Website

LATER THROUGH LATER

Common Name or Meaning The Large Horned Epidendrum [refers to the prominent, long apical lobes of the lip which stand out as 2 long horns]

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in northern Colombia on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta at elevations of 1200 to 1725 meters as a medium sized, cool growing caespitose, terrestrial or epiphyte with cane-like, terete at the base, laterally compressed above, erect stems carrying 14, alternate, all along the apical 2/3'ds of the stem, sub-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the later spring through later summer on a terminal, erect, without a spathe, occuring only once, peduncle, 1.52" [3.8 cm] long, straight, thin, without bracts, rachis paniculate, 5 branched, suberect, each 3.28" to 4.08" [8.2 to 10.2 cm] long, each branch with a basal, triangular, acuminate, margin entire bract, 7.6" [19 cm] long overall, simultaneously about 100 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, narrowly triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying resupinate, membraneous, yellow green flowers with a white lip with out fragrance data

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 138 Schlechter1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 187 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; ICones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1352 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 drawing fide;

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