Epidendrum klotzscheanum Rchb.f. 1850 GROUP Alpicolum
Photo by © Joseph Vega and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Another Drawing of E raphiodophorum
Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name Klotzsch's Epidendrum [German Botanical Garden Director 1800's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, and northern Brazil on crests of roadbanks and ridges, or rarely on tepuis on mossy tree trunks at elevations of 2000 to 3200 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial or rarely elipihyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, straight stems carrying numerous, suberect, alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate, sub-acute apically, shortly bilobed, articulate and conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later summer through later winter on a terminal, racemose, nodding densely many flowered inflorescence arising through 1 to 3, open on on one side of the upper half then conduplicate, tubular, acuminate, lanceolate spathaceous bracts and prominent but shorter than the ovary, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers.
"Epidendrum klotzscheanum belongs to the GROUP Alpicolum which is characterized by the simple, cane-like stems, long, narrow 1 to 3 spathaceous bracts, fox-tail-like inflorescence and numerous flowers with fleshy lip. The species is recognized by the very tall plants, (up to ca. 60" [1.5 m] tall with numerous sub-erect, lanceolate leaves, the arching-nutant, densely many-flowered racemose inflorescence, the flowers fuchsia to yellowish tinged with pink, sepals .64" [14 mm] long, the 3-lobed lip, the lateral lobes with the margin slightly erose and revolute, the mid-lobe oblong with the apex truncate. Epidendrum melanoxeros Hágsater & Dodson has shorter leaves, 5 to 6.8" [12.5 to 14.5 cm] long, the apex rounded, up to 20 yellowish green flowers, with the apex of the lip obtuse. Epidendrum morilloi Hágsater & E.Santiago is distinguished by the arching-horizontal stem, the paniculate inflorescence (though the branches are short and few), the creamy white sepals and petals, with a snow-white lip and column, the flowers comparatively smaller, sepals .32 to .4" [8 to 10 mm] long. Epidendrum charpinii Hágsater & E.Santiago has a racemose inflorescence, ochre colored flowers, the lip somewhat paler, with the mid-lobe of the lip somewhat apically rhombic, widened near the acute apex, sepals erect and spreading." Hagsater etal
Synonyms Epidendrum ernstii Schltr. 1919; Epidendrum ochriodes Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum raphidophorum Lindl. 1853
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 34 Schlechter 1919 as E ernstii; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 70 Schlechter 1919; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 71 Schlechter 1919 as E ochriodes; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 72 Schlechter 1919 as E raphidophorum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 249 Schlechter 1920 as E ochriodes; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 69 1921 as E ernstii; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren -Atlas 57: 18 Schlechter 1929 as E ernstii drawing fide; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959 as E raphidophorum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; 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; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 354 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 454 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 485 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 494 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 493 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 as E ochriodes see recognition section; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 703 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 874 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1314 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1343 Hagsater 2010 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1359 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1405 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E cf klotzscheanum Photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E raphidophorum
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