Epidendrum baryanthum Hágsater & Salas Guerr. 2016 GROUP Ferreyae
TYPE LCDP by © M Salas/ TYPE Photo by © I Rolando and The AMO Herbaria Website
Common Name The Heavy Flowered Epidendrum
Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]
Found in central Peru at elevations of 1940 to 3000 meters as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, erect, thick stems carrying all along the apical 2/3's of the stem, 11 to 15, spreading, alternate, distichous, articulate, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, paniculate, heavy, arching-nutant, peduncle to 2" [5 cm] long, terete, thick, rachis to 11.2" [23 cm] long, nearly totaly hidden by the flowers, paniculate, nearly simultaneous many flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, linear-triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying up to 46 flowers on the main spike and about 6 each on the lateral branches each flower with the sepals and petals pale green, most dorsally dark purple, lip pale green, the disc surrounded towards the margin by purple dots along the veins, dorsally pale greenish somewhat dotted purple along the center, column greenish tinged purple towards the apex.
"Epidendrum baryanthum belongs to the GROUP Ferreyae which is characterized by the sympodial, caespitose habit, canelike stems with numerous leaves, apical inflorescence subtended by 1 to 2 large spathes, and a nutant, heavy racemose to paniculate inflorescence with numerous large, fleshy, attractive flowers. The new species is recognized by the large sub-orbicular lip in outline, the margins revolute, with the mid-lobe short, wide and deeply emarginate, thus bi-lobed, formed by two semicircular small lobes strongly revolute, not evident in natural position; sepals .48 to . 64" [12 to 16 mm] long, petals are oblanceolate, sub-acute, .088 to -12" [2.2to 3.0 mm] wide. It is similar to Epidendrum ferreyrae Hágsater & Ric.Fernández, which has a clearly 3-lobed lip with the lateral lobes dolabriform and the mid-lobe subtriangular, narrow; sepals .6 to .72" [15 to 18 mm] long, column .4" [10 mm] long. Epidendrum lesteri Hágsater & Dodson has 3-lobed, margin erose-crenate; lateral lobes sub-reniform; mid-lobe rectangular, comparatively large, the apex truncate, somewhat bilobed, short-apiculate; sepals .64" [16 mm] long, petals oblanceolate, apically rounded, .08" [2 mm] wide. Epidendrum orthoclinium Hágsater & Dodson, has a 3-lobed lip, the lateral lobes semi-circular, margin dentate, mid-lobe spatulate; sepals .44 to .48" [11 to 12 mm] long, petals oblanceolate, narrow, acute, .048" [1.2 mm] wide, column arched upwards at the clinandrium." Hagsater etal 2016
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ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 15[2] Plate1572 Hagsater etal 2016 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1874 Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 see recognition section
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