Epidendrum lumbaquiense Hágsater & Dodson 1999 GROUP Compressiblbum

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name The Lumbaqui Epidendrum [Town in Ecuador near the type locality]

Flower Size .5” [1.25 cm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, forming a creeping rhizome, then thickened into a laterally flattened, sulcate, pseudobulb carrying 1 to 2, apical, coriaceous, articulate, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, margin entire, coriaceous, smooth leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, arising through a small ancipitous spathe, occuring only once, on a mature pseudobulb, peduncle laterally compressed basally, naked, 3.6 to 12” [9 to 30 cm] long overall, paniculate, erect, simultaneously 3 to 50 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, honey scented, green flowers with a pink to purple tinge near the apex of all segments. .

"Epidendrum lumbaquiense is easily recognized by the laterally flattened pseudobulbs on a creeping rhizome, 1 to 2 leaved at the apex, the single, very small spathe at the base of the large paniculate inflorescence with small, green, sweet-smelling flowers with a widely ovate lip, and a single, dish-like callus, the nectary swollen into a large veside at the lateral sepals. The species is very similar to Epidendrum compressibulbum which can be recognized by its 3-dentate callus, each prolonged into a short keel on the disc of the lip, the arched column and the thin ovary which is barely thickened behind the lateral sepals." Hagsater etal 1999

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 349 Hagsater & Dodson 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1807 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1812 2020 See recognition section

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