Epidendrum colanense Hágsater & E.Santiago 2013 GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Sumacoense

TYPE Drawing by Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name the Cordillera Colan Epidendrum [A mountain range in Amazonas Peru]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Amazonas province of Peru in the Cordillera Colan at elevations around 2350 to 2500 meters as a large to giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with branching, cane-like, terete, erect, straight, the basal half of the main stem enveloped by tubular, non-foliar, striate, rugose sheaths and carrying numerous on the main stem, 2 to 5 per branch, all along the apical half of the branches, erect-spreading, distichous, articulate, alternate, sub-coriaceous, unequal in size, basal one shorter, oblong, obtuse, margin entire leaves with the main stem leaves slightly larger that blooms in the winter on a terminal, without a spathe, occuring only once, racmose , (occasionally producing a pair of flowers on a very short, sessile inflorescence on a branch), slightly arching, peduncle .6" [1.5 cm] subterete, thin, short, prvided near the base an oblanceolate, acute bract, rachis simultaneously 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with prominent, shorter than the ovary, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying resupinate, greenish yellow flowers.

"Epidendrum colanense belongs to the GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Sumacoense, characterized by the monopodial branching habit, cane-like stems, branching sub-apically, the branches shorter than the main stem, leaves coriaceous to sub-coriaceous and fleshy flowers, the lip entire or 3-lobed. The species is recognized by the linear petals, falcate and somewhat expanded at the distal 1/3, the lateral lobes of the lip auriculate, the calli sub-globose and the disc with a semi-circular thickening in front of the calli, column .48" [12 mm] long, with short teeth on each side. Epidendrum pichinchae has linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong petals oblique at the base, the lateral lobes of the lip are obliquely ovate to dolabriform, calli laminar, column .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long, and the apex of the column has a pair of prominent sub-rectangular wings. Epidendrum sumacoënse Hágsater & Dodson has somewhat smaller flowers, sepals .52 to .6" [13 to 15 mm] long, oblanceolate petals with a rounded apex and erose margin, the lateral lobes of the lip obliquely ovate, and the column is .24" [6 mm] long with a pair of very prominent, rounded wings." Hagsater etal 2013

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1419 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 drawing fide;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------