Epidendrum ibaguense H.B.K. 1816 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum
Photo/drawing by © Eric Hagsater
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Ibague' Epidendrum [A Colombian city in Tolima department]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.25 cm]
Found from solely from Colombia, at elevations above 1800 meters as a highly variable, large sized, erect, hot to cool growing, reedstem terrestrial or lithophytic species with terete stems enveloped by grey or brown sheaths carrying elliptic, distichous, acute or obtuse leaves that is freeblooming year round on a terminal, erect, to 14" [35 cm] long, simple or few branched raceme with an apical cluster of blooms that open in succession over a long period of time and needs even year round conditions.
Similar to E radicans but this one does not have adventitious roots all along the stem, only at the base.
"Epidendrum ibaguense Kunth, belongs to the GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum characterized as a subgroup by the bicallose lip with a central, narrow, long, wavy keel, the column is apically high and the anther is generally decumbent. The species is characterized by the caespitose habit, simple, terete, stems, numerous, oblong-elliptic, leaves, mostly elongate inflorescence, with a raceme of successive flowers, the lip with two calli and a prominent, flexuous keel. the species has resupinate flowers about the same size as the next described species, sepals being .48 to .52" [12 to 13 mm} long, column .32" [8 mm] long, orange-red, the lip orange with some dots on the disc, column orange-red, sometimes orange towards the apex; this species is found exclusively as a terrestrial in the highlands of northern Colombia on the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. Epidendrum sonia-juaniorum is recognized by the fuchsia colored flowers, calli and mid-rib yellow, sepals .44 to .48" [11 to 12 mm] long, column .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long, and the habit which appears to be exclusively epiphytic. It is similar to Epidendrum thermophilum Hágsater & Dodson which also has non-resupinate flowers but the color IS reddish-purple, lip obscurely 3-lobed, basal margins straight and somewhat retrorse, lateral lobes obcuneate with the distal margin deeply fimbriate, mid-lobe sub-quadrate, margins deeply fimbriate, and is found as a terrestrial in northern Ecuador. Epidendrum mimopsis Hágsater & Dodson, from Zumba, on the southern tip of Ecuador and on the Amazon side of the Andes, has somewhat similar flowers, but these are purple, with yellow calli and mid-rib, sepals .56 to .6" [14 to 15 mm] long. Epidendrum aromoense Cornejo & Hágsater, has red flowers with a complex yellow callus, and is also found as an epiphyte and known from the seasonally foggy, very dry coastal forests of El Aromo and Montecristi, located ca. 20 km apart from each other in the Province of Manabí in western Ecuador, at ca. 200 meters in altitude." Adapted from Plate 1659 Hagsater etal 2018
Synonyms Epidendrum baumannianum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum bituberculatum Rolfe 1892; Epidendrum fimbria Rchb.f. 1854; Epidendrum fraternum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum laetum Schltr. 1919; Epidendrum miquelii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum planiceps Kraenzl. 1911; Epidendrum smithii Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum sororium Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 37 Schlechter 1919 as E laetum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 70 Schlechter 1919 as E laetum; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 133 Schlechter 1920 as E fraternum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 149 Schlechter 1920 as E smithii; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 150 Schlechter 1920 as E sororium; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 244 Schlechter 1920 as E bituberculatum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 247 Schlechter 1920 as E fraternum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 251 Schlechter 1920 as E smithii; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 252 Schlechter 1920 E sororium; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 253 Schlechter 1920 as E ybagense; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 72 Bolivia Schlechter 1922 as Y ybagense; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren -Atlas 57: 180 Schlechter 1929 as E fraternum drawing fide; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 19 Schlechter 1929 as E laetum drawing fide; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 203 Schlechter 1929 as E smithii drawing fide; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 204 Schlechter 1929 as E sororium drawing fide; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 # 8 1964; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing ok; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; 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; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as E bituberculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 5 1979; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 731 Dodson 1982 see observations; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 8 1983 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 # 4 1985; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 040 Hagsater 1990 see recognition section; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1433 Atwood 1992 see observations; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 7 1993 as E aff ibaguense photo good; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing fide; Venezuela, Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 as E miguelii; ; Orquideologia 24: 3 Ortiz & Hagsater 2005; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1171 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as E laetum photo not; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, etal 2012 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #10 2013 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1410 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1516 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 as E miguelii see recognition section; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E fraternum drawing ok; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 Photo not = E radicans; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E smithii; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1659 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 See recognition section;
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