Epidendrum campbellstigma Hágsater & García-Cruz 1999 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Platystigma

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

LATE EARLY

Common Name Campbell's Epidendrum [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in rain forests at elevations around 1450 meters as a giant sized, cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, branched, terete stems and carrying all along the stem, on the principal stem deciduous, and larger, on the secondary stems, smaller and persistent, narrowly oblong, oblique bilobed, rounded leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, generally on the branches, occuring only once, racemose, distichous, erect to arcuate, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long including the laterally compressed, erect, .28 to .6" [.7 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence without a spathe, and with conduplicate, non-imbricate, narrowly ovate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bract and carrying resupinate, apple green flowers with a white lip.

"E. campbellstigma belongs to the GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Platystigma characterized by the monopodial, erect plants with a clear primary stem, branching occurs from the axil of the leaves, producing short, few, small leaved branches, and these produce successive, short branches from a subapical internode, thus an old plant has numerous branches, these progressively made of fewer elements, and often lacking the juvenile, long leaves, at this stage the plant attains full flowering and often dies. The species is recognized by its large plants with narrowly oblong leaves, secondary branches with leaves 1.2 to 2.4" x .32 to .6" [3 to 6 x 0.8 to 1.5 cm], the floral bracts widely ovate, generally brownish when dried, .32 to .64" [0.8 to 1.6 cm] long, flowers apple green, the lip white, ovary arcuate, sepals ovate, acute, lip subreniform, base cordate, clinandrium as long as the column, entire. E. penneystigma has secondary and tertiary branches with leaves .6 to 2 x .28 to .6" [1.5 to 5 x 0.7 to 1.5 cm], floral bracts not imbricate, flowers white, sepals elliptic-Ianceolate, lip semicircular-flabellate. E. jefestigma Hágsater & Carda-Cruz, has flowers whitish green, lip white suborbicular, base truncate, callus bilobate." Hagsater etal 1999

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ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 314 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 318 Hagsater & Dodson 1999 Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 368 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 397 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 977 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1127 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section;

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