TYPE LCDP by © E. Hágsater & A. Cisneros/TYPE Photo by Eric Hgsater and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Unknown Epidendrum [Refers to its unknown origin]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Peru without locational data as a miniature sized epiphyte with thickened to form fusiform, furrowed and rugose pseudobulbs, covered by 1 to 2 scarious, becoming fibrous with time sheaths, lacking in old pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, articulate, coriaceous; blade narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex sub-rounded, lemon-green, margin entire leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, arising through a single, pale green, tubular, oblong, conduplicate, apex obtuse spathe, peduncle 2" [5 cm] long, terete, thin, erect, straight, pale green somewhat tinged brown; rachis .28" [0.7 cm] long, 4" [10 cm] long including the flowers, apical, erect, racemose, laxly simultaneously 3 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, widely triangular, apex acute, embracing floral bracts and carrying apparently resupinate, reddish brown flowers with the disc of the lip yellow; column light reddish brown with the apex yellowish pink and the fragrance was not registered.
"Epidendrum incognitum belongs to the GROUP Saxicola characterized by the pseudobulbous stems, caespitose or scandent habit, the prominent spathaceous bract apically rounded, few-flowered, the erect inflorescence, the flowers purple or yellow, and the surface of the vegetative structures often rugose. The new species is recognized by the reddish brown flowers with the disc yellow, leaves 2.4 to 4.8" [6 to 12 cm] long, petals .52" [13 mm] long, oblanceolate, lip widely cordiform apex truncate, ovary not forming any thickened vesicle, and the yellow column wings nearly parallel to the divaricate calli. It is similar to Epidendrum harmsianum which has sulphuryellow flowers, shorter leaves, 1.4 to 2.4" [3.5 to 6.0 cm] long, petals .64" [14 mm] long, oblanceolate, and lip transversely ovate-oblong. Epidendrum milpoënse Hágsater & E.Santiago has green flowers, petals .64 to .69" [16 to 17.5 mm] long, rhombic-spatulate, lip with 3 parallel ribs on the disc, ovary vesiculate, and column wings short, straight. Epidendrum microcattleyioides D.E.Benn. & Christenson has smaller yellow flowers, petals .44" [11 mm] long, obovate, and the lip reniform, widely emarginate. Epidendrum saxicola Kraenzl. has purple colored flowers, the lip white, petals .6 to .72" [15 to 18 mm] long, oblanceolate, and the lip sub-orbicular and obscurely pentagonal. Epidendrum magnisaxicola Hágsater, Edquén & E.Santiago has large flowers, sepals .96 to 1" [24 to 25 mm] long, pale greenish yellow, the sepals tinged brown, oblanceolate petals 1 x .16" [25 x 4 mm], lip .53 to .44" [13.5 x 11 mm], entire, ovate-rhombic, base truncate, revolute in natural position." Hagsater etal 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1773 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 LCDP/Photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1796 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section;
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