Epidendrum cardenasii Hágsater 1999 GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Soratae
Photo by © Roberto Vasquez
Photo by © Ivan Jimenez, Jorge Quezada & Juan Carlos Bermejo and the Orquideas de Cotapata Website
TYPE Drawing by © Lopez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
EARLIER
Common Name Cardenas' Epidendrum [Bolivian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bolivia in wet bogs at elevations around 3500 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a long succession of simple, with 3 to 6 internodes, cane-like, erect, terete, thin stems producing new stems from an apical internode of the previous stem carrying 3 to 5, all along the stem, thin, subcoriaceous, lanceolate, aristate, apical margin papillose leaves that blooms in the earlier spring on a terminal, racemose, arching nutant, terete, thin, .4" [1 cm] long, occuring only once, few flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem, with much shorter than the ovary, lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying 3 to 5, simultaneously opening, resupinate, yellow flowers.
"Epidendrum cardenasii belongs to GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Soratae characterized by the branching habit with superposed stems, infundibuliform, rugose leaf-sheaths, lanceolate, aristate leaves, compact, racemose, nutant inflorescence on a filiform peduncle. The species is recognized by the racemose inflorescence, the bilobed lip with a thick mucro in the sinus, two laminar, divaricate calli, sepals .48 to .52" [12 to 13 mm] long. Epidendrum soratae has a somewhat three-lobed lip, the apical lobe protruding from the lateral lobes, small, emarginate, without any thick mucro in the sinus, sepals .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long .
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 320 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 436 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2004 draqwing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 723 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 794 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 862 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 988 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1206 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1291 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1679 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1753 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section;
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