Epidendrum oaxacanum Rolfe 1904 GROUP Anisatum

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LATER EARLIER

Common Name The Oaxaca Epidendrum [A State in southern Mexico]

Flower Size

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in pine/oak forests as a cool to cold growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall and winter.

Closely related to E costatum, E guerrerense, E hueycantenangensewhich has the lip obscurely lobed, and Epidendrum mixtecanum

"Epidendrum oaxacanum is part of GROUP Anisatum and is an Oaxacan endemic with lax inflorescence, greenish-yellow flowers, lip 3-lobed but with the lobes separated by narrow, acute sinuses, lateral lobes with several radiating, thickened veins, and midlobe shallowly emarginate, with margin erose. The species is closely related to Epidendrum guerrerense which has short, dense racemes, green flowers, broad obtuse sinuses separating the lobes of the 3-lobed lip, the midlobe is definitely bilobed, with entire margins, and the lateral lobes lack the thickened veins. Epidendrum guerrerense has been found growing sympatrically with E. hueycantenangense Hágsater & Garcla-Cruz, which can be easily distinguished by the usually purplish flowers, and the obscurely 3-lobed lip with dentate margins. Adapted from E guerrerense Icones Plate 141 Hagsater etal 1993

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 141 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 158 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section;

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