Epidendrum denticulatum Barb. Rodr. 1881 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum

Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista.

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Common Name The Toothed Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Brazil in full sun where it is quite commonly found from Pernambuco to Rio Grande do Sul State and I suppose even in Uruguay at elevations of 1000 meters in dry scrub as a, large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with cane-like stems carrying 10 to 16, thick, leathery leaves and blooms from the winter through late summer on an apical, many flowered inflorescence with color variable flowers.

As most of the Epidendrums of the GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum, we can grow it easily in the ground and soon it will turn into a huge specimen plant. It can be distinguished from other similar species due to the two roundish yellow callus on the lip. There are several different colors of this species.

"Epidendrum denticulatum belongs to the GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum, which is characterized by the caespitose habit, simple, terete, stems, numerous, oblong-elliptic, bilobed leaves, mostly elongate inflorescence, with a raceme of successive flowers, the lip with two calli and a prominent, flexuous keel. The species has somewhat acuminate sepals and petals, the petals with non-branching veins and entire margins, the midlobe of the lip proportionately larger, and a white spot on the disc covering more than the calli. It closely somewhat resembles Epidendrum franckei with the non-resupinate, pink flowers flowering simultaneously, the apex of the column and calli white, obtuse sepals and petals, the erose petals somewhat wider than the sepals and the lip with large, extended, semiorbicular lateral lobes and a smaller, bifid midlobe." Adapted from Plate 737 Hagsater etal 2004

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasiliense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 photo good; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 7 Plate 737 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo ok; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E aff denticulatum Photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;

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