Epidendrum nanosimplex Hágsater & Dodson 1999 GROUP Nanum SUBGROUP Nanoecallosum
Photos by © Spiro K and The Greek Orchid Society Website
TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
LATE
Common Name or Meaning The Small Entire Lipped Epidendrum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Tungurahua and Napo provinces of Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes in very wet montane forest along rivers at elevations of 600 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold, pendant growing epiphyte with laterally compressed stems arising from near the middle to near the apex of the previous mature stem and completely enveloped by imbricating, evanescent leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying articulate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, succulent leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, peduncle provided with a bract intermediate in size and shape between the leaves and the floral bracts, racemose, sucessively single, 6 to 7 flowered inflorescence triangular, acuminate, dorsally carinate, progressively smaller floral bracts and carrying resupinate, clear green flowers with the lip and the apex of the column white.
"Epidendrum nanosimplex belongs to GROUP Nanum SUBGROUP Nanoecallosum characterized by the dichaea-like pendant stems with pairs of apposing flowers on an inflorescence without spathaceous bracts and has prominent floral bracts and a simple, entire lip. The species can be recognized by the simple, entire lip, the vesicle of the ovary occupying about 1/3 of the ovary, and the entire clinandrium which slightly covers the anther. Epidendrum dichaeoides Carnevali & G. Romero has 1 to 2 flowers, but longer .24 to .36" [6 to 9 mm] sepals, and wider petals .08 to .082" [2 to 2.5 mm] clearly distinguish it. Other species in this group have a 3-lobed lip." Hagsater etal 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 360 Hagsater 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 388 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 448 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 857 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1267 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1729 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1782 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1794 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section;
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