Epidendrum betimianum Barb.Rodr. 1882 GROUP Coronatum SUBGROUP Coronatum

TYPE Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues, Courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name or Meaning The Betim Epidendrum [A town in Minas Gerais Brazil]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations around 600 to 800 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte.

"Epidendrum betimainum is part of GROUP Coronatum SUBGROUP Coronatum, characterized by the relatively large plants with stems carrying many leaves and blooming on an apical, racemose inflorescence without spathaceous bracts and large waxy flowers with a 3 lobed lip that is basally bicallose. The species has simple canes, fleshy leaves, no spathe, an arching, paniculate inflorescence with numerous fleshy flowers, has shorter, wider sepals, and a single keel between the two calli. Epidendrum kanehirae Hágsater is closely related and has simple canes, fleshy leaves, no spathe, an arching, paniculate inflorescence with numerous fleshy flowers, the sepals elliptic, narrowed near the base, the laterals prominently keeled dorsally, and the 3-lobed lip with dolabriform lateral lobes, a cuneate, retuse midlobe and the calli laminar, the disc with very low radiating fleshy veins." Adapted from E kanehirae Icones Plate 450 Hagsater etal 2001

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Brasiliense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 450 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section;

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