Epidendrum falcisepalum F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Rupestre TYPE Drawing by M Lopez R and The AMO Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The ?Sepal Epidendrum
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Peru on the cordillera occidental and Oriental at elevations of 3100 to 3750 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with thickened, forming a homoblastic pseudobulb, terete, fusiform, green, minutely rugose stem carrying 1 to 2, apical, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, grass-like, margin entire leaves taht blooms in the fall on a terminal, racemose, occuring only once, erect, peduncle 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, terete, with a singlem bract below the rachis, rachis to [17 cm] long, loosely, simultaneously 10 to 16 flowered inflorescence with abut as long as the ovary, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, embracing floral bracts and carrying resupinate, yellow to grayish yellow flowers.
"Epidendrum falcisepalum F.
Lehm. & Kraenzl. has shorter plants 12 to 14" [30 to 35 cm], leaves up to .2" [5 mm] wide, shorter inflorescence, fewer flowers, sepals .24" [6 mm] long,
the lateral lobes of the lip bilobed and upright, about subequal to the midlobe, margin entire, and the flower in general has a
a heavier aspect than E. alpicoscandens which has a repent habit,
the new stem produced at 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] from the base of the previous stem, narrow, lanceolate leaves up to .34" [8.5 mm] wide, dorsal sepal
.28" [7 mm] long and the lateral lobes of the .16" [4 mm] long lip upright, embracing the apex of the column." Adapted from E alpicoscandeans Icones plate 407 Hagsater etal 2001
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchids of Peru Fieldiana, Bot. 33: 35 Schweinfurth 1970;
Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 407 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1525 Hagsater 2015 drawing fide
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