Epidendrum notostachyum Hágsater & E.Santiago 2015 GROUP Macrostachyum
TYPE Photo by H Medina/TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website
LATE
Common Name The Southern Ear Of Corn Epidendrum [refers to the southern distribution of this species within the range of the group and with inflorescence which are reminiscent of ears of corn]
Flower Size 1.2” [3 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests along the Cordillera Oriental at elevations of 1500 to 3100 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with branching when mature, cane-like, basally terete, slightly laterally compressed above stems carrying numerous [21] on the main stem, 5 to 8 on the branches, all along the apical half of the stem, articulate, distichous, lustrous, lanceolate, obtuse, margin denticulate towards the apex leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a terminal, racemose, without a spathe, occuring only once, peduncle .2 to .4” [5 to 10 mm] long, laterally compresssed, straight, rachis 2.4 to 4.4" [6 to 11 cm] long, terete, thin, straight, simultaneously 11 to 30 flowered inflorescence with small, shorter than the ovary, narrowly triangular, acute, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, fleshy, green to greenish white flowers.
"Epidendrum notostachyum belongs to the GROUP Macrostachyum , which is characterized by the monopodial plants with sub-apical branching, rugose leaf sheaths, large leaves generally spreading, racemose, erect inflorescence, and fleshy flowers generally green to black (ripe olive colored), as well as yellow to pink to purple, with an entire, conduplicate, generally ecallose lip embracing the column, and the nectary pubescent to papillose in front of the stigmatic cavity and at least at the base of the lip. The species is recognized by the narrow, lanceolate leaves, 4.5-15 x 0.8-2.2 cm, floral bracts small; flowers green or greenish white, sepals dorsally papillose, anther ovoid with the apex truncate; nectary shallow, penetrating about 2/3 of the column, not the ovary. Epidendrum borealistachyum Hágsater & E.Santiago is vegetatively very similar, but the flowers lilac-white, apex of the column deep purple, nectary deep, penetrating 1/3 of the ovary. Epidendrum palaciosii Hágsater & Dodson has elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 2 to 4.8" x .92" [5 to 12 x 2.3 cm]; flowers are grayish lilac, sepals dorsally muricate, petals oblanceolate with the apex rounded, .14" [3.5 m] wide. Epidendrum chondrochilum Schltr.has wider leaves, .56 to 1.4" [1.4 to 3.5 cm] wide; floral bracts are prominent, triangular-ovate, .32 to .72" [8 TO 18 mm] long, flowers are black-brown, the color of ripe olives, sepals are dorsally glabrous. Epidendrum microrigidiflorum Hágsater has ovate-lanceolate leaves, apex acuminate, flowers are greenish yellow to cream-colored, sepals dorsally glabrous, and the lip is widely rhombic, with the base cuneate." Hagsater etal 2015
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1505 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; *Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1545 Hagsater & Santiago 2015 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1563 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
