Epidendrum brachyglossum Lindl.1844 GROUP Mancum SUBGROUP Mancum

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Drawing

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

Common Name The Short Lipped Epidendrum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru? in upper montane wet forests on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations around 2000 to 3100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on embankments with simply branching stems enveloped by 3 to 4, loose, tubular, acute sheaths and carrying 2, apical, linear, acuminate, membranaceous leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, racemose, several to many flowered inflorescence subtended by 1 to 3, narrow, imbricating spathes and carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate flowers.

"Epidendrum brachyglossum Lindl. belongs to the GROUP Mancum which is characterized by the sympodial habit, few-leaved stems, racemose inflorescence with 1 to 2 ancipitose, long, spathaceous bracts with parallel sides, and SUBGROUP Mancum which is non-resupinate, fleshy flowers with a generally reduced lip. The species can be recognized by its laterally compressed stems, oblong-lanceolate leaves 1.2 to 3.56" x .24 to .36" [3.0 to 8.4 x 0.6 to 0.9 cm], somewhat lax-flowered inflorescence, linear, 1 to 3-veined petals, bicallose, 3- lobed lip, the lateral lobes obliquely sub-quadrate to sub-orbicular, entire to acute, midlobe quadrate, entire. Epidendrum microtum (Lindl.) Hágsater & L.Sánchez, has large, wide leaves, .24 to 6.4" x .72 to 1" [6 to 16 x 1.8 to 2.5 cm], lip larger, lateral lobes elliptic to sub-triangular, midlobe trapezoid with the margin undulate. Epidendrum microglossum Schltr. has a very lax-flowered inflorescence, flexuous rachis and spatulate petals, the 3-lobed lip with similar, elliptic to sub-orbicular lip, the midlobe reduced, obtuse." Hagsaer etal 2009

Synonyms Epidendrum brachyglossum var. microtum Lindl.1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 244 Schlechter 1920; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 059 Dodson 1989 drawing not; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 463 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 420 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 467 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 498 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Vaquez & Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 728 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 744 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 760 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 763 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 782 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Vasquez & Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1212 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1263 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1264 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1286 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1288 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing fide;

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