Epidendrum mancum Lindl 1844 GROUP Mancum SUBGROUP Mancum Type for the group
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Photo by © Byron Rinke
Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Mutilated Hand Epidendrum [refers to the much reduced lip]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane low, elfin cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2650 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with flattened, cane-like stems enveloped by leafless below and 3 to 4 leaf bearing sheaths above and carrying rigid, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, apically bilobed, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, simple, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane through 1 to 2, conduplicate spathes and carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate flowers.
"Epidendrum mancum Lindl. belongs to the GROUP Mancum which is characterized by the sympodial habit, few-leaves stems, racemose inflorescence with 1 to 2 ancipitose, long, spathaceous bracts with parallel sides, and SUBGROUP Mancum which is non-resupinate, generally fleshy flowers and a reduced lip . The species can be recognized by its relatively small plants, short, wide leaves, spatulate petals with the margin entire to sinuate, a reduced, sub-quadrate lip, bicallose, the calli prominent, elongate and laterally compressed, with a short, sub-globose keel in the middle. Epidendrum pseudomancum Hágsater & L.Sánchez has suborbicular-spatulate petals, the margin crenulate, and a trullate lip. Epidendrum ancistronum Hágsater & Dodson has much wider leaves, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] wide, a 3-lobed lip, the lateral lobes subtriangular, and the midlobe trapezoid to sub-quadrate. Epidendrum rhombimancum Hágsater & L.Sánchez has elliptic-lanceolate leaves, obovate petals, and a transversely elliptic lip, with the central keel formed by numerous thickenings. Epidendrum microtum (Lindl.) Hágsater & L.Sánchez has larger plants, 8 to 17.2" [20 to 43 cm] tall, longer leaves, 2.4 to 6.4" [ 6 to 16 cm] long, and a 3-lobed lip. Epidendrum microglossum Schltr. has narrower, linear-lanceolate leaves, .24 to .32" [0.6 to 0.8 cm] wide, a flexuose rachis and 3-lobed lip." Hagsaer etal 2009
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 429 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0065 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 as E sp #196 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = E mancum; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 2001 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 655 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 420 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 455 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 467 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 498 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Machu Picchu Orchids Christenson 2003 photo photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 721 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 755 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 728 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 744 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 760 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 763 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 769 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 782 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 783 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 785 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 885 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1173 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1204 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1262 Hagsater 2009 Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1263 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1264 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1286 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1288 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as Epi sp photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1611 Hagsater & Santiago 2018 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1680 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16(1) plate 1685 Hagsater etal 2018 in recognition section;
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