Epidendrum latilabre Lindley 1841 GROUP Difforme

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

to LATE to EARLY

Common Name The Broad Lipped Epidendrum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil, French Guiana, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests low down on tree trunks and branches at elevations around 350 to 1830 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is very similar to Epidendrum difforme but differs in having an obscurely 3 lobed, very broadly transverse unicaulos labellum. The plant has strongly fractiflex, compressed, ancipitous stems, terete below, gradually broader above that has a green leaf bearing, articulated, conduplicate closed sheath at each node. The leaves are succulent looking, oblong-elliptic, oval or ovate-elliptic, basally clasping, and bilobed apically and the plant blooms in the winter and early spring on a subsessile, 4 to 7 flowered, short inflorescence with sucessively opening flowers.

"E. latilabrum is part of GROUP Difforme characterized by the caespitose, sympodial plants, fleshy, pale green to glaucous leaves, apical inflorescence, sessile, rarely with a short peduncle, one-flowered to many-flowered, and then corymbose, without spathaceous bracts, fleshy, green to yellowish-green rarely white flowers. The species is from Brazil which has laterally compressed stems, successive, green and larger flowers, semiorbicular to subrectangular laterallobes and subcuadrate midlobe. Epidendrum panegyricum can be recognized by its ancipitose stems, 2 to 3 simultaneous, pale green flowers, 3-lobed lip, elliptic lateral lobes and transversely rectangular midlobe, straight, obconical column. to It differs from E. difforme from Lesser Antilles, which also has ancipitous stems, smaller plants and smaller green flowers, lip with subquadrate midlobe and occasionally arcuate column." Adapted from Icones Orchidacearumm Plate 365 Hagsater etal 1999

Synonyms Amphiglottis latilabra (Lindl.) Acuña 1939; Epidendrum latilabrum Lindl. 1841; Neolehmannia latilabris (Lindl.) Pabst 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 248 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 34. Panama Schlechter 1922;Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 27: 67 Colombia Schlechter 1924; Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1938 as Amphiglottis latilabris; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine and Anderson 1991 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 049 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo good; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 446 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as E althausenii Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 365 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as E althausenii, Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 plate 811 Hagsater & Salazar 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 896 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1202 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1202 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1249 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, etal 2012 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1404 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1407 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1473 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E althausenii drawing fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017

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