Epidendrum cylindraceum Lindl. 1844 GROUP Cylindraceum
Photo by © RoCl
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Cylindrical Epidendrum [refers to the inflorescence shape]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry, montane cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome, giving rise to erect, cane-like, branching stems enveloped by flattened, vaginate sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 per branch, apical, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, acute, clasping at the rounded base, erect-spreading leaves that blooms in the spring to summer on a terminal, erect, 13.6" [34 cm] long, rather dense, many flowered, inflorescence mostly enveloped by 2 to 3, close, equitant, imbricating, elongate spathes.
"Epidendrum cylindraceum belongs to the GROUP Cylindraceum characterized by the sympodial habit, narrow spathaceous bracts with parallel sides, an erect racemose inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers and a generally reduced, fleshy lip. This species can be recognized by its short and wide leaves, 2.4 to 4" x 1 to 1.4! [6 to 10 x 2.5 to 3.5 cm], short, compact, cylindrical raceme, the flowers distributed along the apical half of the inflorescence, sepals and petals .4 to .48" [10 to 12 mm] long, verrucose ovary, lateral lobes and midlobe of the lip with a crenulate margin, apex of midlobe bilobed. It is very similar to Epidendrum lřjtnantii Hágsater & Dodson, but that species has narrower leaves .72 to .8" [1.8 to 2.0 cm] wide, an unornamented, .48 to .6" [12 to 15 mm] long ovary, and the midlobe of the lip 3-lobed. Epidendrum parvilabre Lindl. from southern Ecuador and Peru has unornamented sepals and an unornamented, .28 to .4" [7 to 10 mm]* long ovary, and the midlobe of the lip erose. Epidendrum diphyllum Schltr., has narrower leaves 2.8 to 4.4" x .92 to 1.12" [7 to 11 x 2.3 to 2.8 cm], sepals dorsally spiculate, petals minutely and irregularly crenulate, smooth, long ovary .92 to 1.08" [23 to 27 mm] long, lateral lobes of the lip falcate-ligulate, acute, the margin crenulate, isthmus of the midlobe oblong, bilobed midlobe, the lobes long an narrow, and the apical margin crenulate-dentate." Hagsater etal 2009
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 246 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 27: 66 Colombia Schlechter 1924; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 375 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 as E cilindraceum photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 431 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 455 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 769 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1213 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1234 Hagsater 2009 See Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1235 Hagsater 2009 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1239 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1271 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 Drawing/Photo fide; "Icones Orchidacearum 16(1) plate 1621 Hagsater etal 2018 in recognition section; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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