Photos by © Marcelo Rodrigues Miranda and A new whitish flowered Epidendrum (Laeliinae-Orchidaceae) from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil EDLLEY PESSOA, MARCELO RODRIGUES MIRANDA, AND MARCCUS ALVES 2015 Website
Common Name The White Epidendrum [Refers to the flower color]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in São Paulo state of Brazil within a protected area of Atlantic Forest (Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, Núcleo Caraguatatuba in areas classified as Highland Ombrophilous Forest (Veloso, 1992) at elevations around 750 meters and often experiences humid and foggy days as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool pendent growing epiphyte with successive, arising from the middle of the subtending stem, cane-like, terete stems carrying 2 per stem, at the apex of the stem, linear-elliptic, the apex acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, without a spathe, peduncle .54 to 1.2" [1.3 to 3.0 cm] long, rachis .4 to .56" [0.1 to 1.4 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, whitish flowers.
"Epidendrum niveum is part of the GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Incomptum characterized by the successive lateral growths produced from the middle of the previous growth, few leaves aggregate towards the apex of the stems, a short apical inflorescence with fleshy greenish to violet-green flowers with short ovaries, the lip entire to 3-lobed. The species is similar to E. proligerum but E niveum differs by having thinner stems, less than .06" versus .08" [<0.15 cm vs. 0.2 cm] wide, whitish flowers vs. greenish to greenish-purple flowers, sepals 7-veined vs. 5-veined, petals patent and 5-veined vs. ascendant and 3-veined, and lip strongly revolute laterally vs. erect to slightly curved laterally." Pessoa etal 2015
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI * A new whitish flowered Epidendrum (Laeliinae-Orchidaceae) from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil EDLLEY PESSOA, MARCELO RODRIGUES MIRANDA, AND MARCCUS ALVES 2015 drawing/photo fide
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