Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. 1836 GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum

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Common Name The Orange Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks with slender, erect stems that are leafy towards the apex and basally enveloped by tubular, scarious leaf sheaths and carrying ascending, narrowly lanceolate, basally clasping, acuminate, thin leaves and blooms in the fall and winter on a densely flowered, terminal, racemose inflorescence arising on mature canes with numerous small flowers.

"Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. belongs to the GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum haracterized by the simple, cane-like stems, long, narrow 1 to 3 spathaceous bracts, fox-tail-like inflorescence and numerous flowers with fleshy lip. The species has similar-sized flowers to Epidendrum boscoense, but the lip is 3-lobed and the habit much larger, and the inflorescence is a densely flowered fox-tail. Epidendrum boscoense at first sight looks like an oversize E. miserrimum Rchb. f., with the parallel-sided spathe and fox-tail inflorescence, though well spaced and laxly flowered. It is recognized by the long, narrow leaves (2 mm wide), the sepals 3.3 mm long and the entire, trowel-shaped lip. Epidendrum dialyrhombicum Hágsater & Dodson also has narrow leaves, but these are some .16" [4 mm] wide, and the inflorescence is compact, many-flowered and the lip free from the column." Adapted from plate 419 Hagsater etal 2001

Synonyms Amblostoma armeniacum (Lindl.) Brieger ex Pabst 1977; Encyclia macrostachya Poepp. & Endl. 1836; Epidendrum macrostachya Poepp. & Endl. 1838;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Amblostoma armeniacum photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0217 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 451 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 655 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see recognition section; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Amblostoma armeniacum; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 419 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004drawing/photo fide; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing/photo fide; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing fide/photo good; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 Drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1885 Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 see recognition section

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