Epidendrum carlos-uribei Hágsater & E.Santiago 2016 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-guilielmii
Plant and Flowers in situ Parque Nacional Chingaza 9/20
Photos by Jay Pfahl
TYPE Photo by Carlos Uribe/TYPE Drawing by Hagsater & Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website
LATE 
EARLIER 
Common Name Carlos Uribe Epidendrum [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia on the cordillera Oriental in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3520 meters as a medium sized, cold growing lithopyte with simple, cane-like, basally terete, somewhat laterally compressed towards the apex, erect, straight, basally enveloped by non-foliar, tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, suberect, alternate, articulate, coriaceous, unequal, lower one smaller, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late summer through earlier winter on a terminal, erect, racemose to basally single, short, few flowered branch, arching nutant, peduncle to .68 to 1.2" [1.7 to 3 cm] long, thin, laterally compressed, rachis 3.72 to 6" [9.3 to 15 cm] long, laterally compressed, reddish orange to dark purple depending on age, laxly, simultaneously to 10 flowered inflorescence arising through a basally tubular, conduplicate in the apical half, acute, amplexicaul, scarious spathe and with small, much shorter than the ovary, linear-triangular, acuminate, clasping floral bracts and carrying resupinate, brown-orange, nonfragrant flowers with the base of the petals and the lip yellow and the column greenish tinted brown.
"Epidendrum carlos-uribei is closely related to the GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-guilielmii, recognized by the tall, unbranched stems, 3 to 5 unequal leaves, the sub-erect inflorescence with prominent spathe. The species is recognized by the smaller plants, to 16" [40 cm] tall, brown-orange flowers with the lip and base of the petals yellow, sepals .68 to .84" [17 to 21 mm] long, margin revolute, petals with hyaline, erose margin, lip with a short fleshy mid-rib in between the calli, margin of the lip erose, lateral lobes sub-quadrate, the upper corner rounded, mid-lobe cuneate. It has been confused with Epidendrum sisgaënse which has much larger, robust plants, rhizome creeping, stems to 32 to 40" [80 to 100 cm] tall, flowers greenish brown with the lip red, lustrous, the lip has 3 thin ribs on the disc, margin is entire, lateral lobes are semi-ovate, and the mid-lobe rectangular. Epidendrum cocuyense Hágsater & E.Santiago is vegetatively very similar, but the flowers are green tinged with purple, sepals .6 to .64" [15 to 16 mm] long, lip with a long mid-rib that reaches the apical sinus, lateral lobes are orbicular, margin entire, and the mid-lobe oblong. Epidendrum trulliforme Garay & Dunst. has green flowers tinged pink, sepals .64" [16 mm] long, the inflorescence is subtended by two spathes that cover the peduncle completely, lip entire, trulliform, base cuneate and the apex acute, with two prominent horn-like calli." Hagsater etal 2016
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1575 Hagsater & Santiago 2016 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1578 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1598 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1} Plate 1654 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1798 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section;
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