Epidendrum pirrense Hágsater 2001 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum

TYPE Drawing by © Lopez and The AMO Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Cerro Pirre Epidendrum [at the northern end of the Serania de Pirre where the type was collected]

Flower Size .24” [6 mm]

Found in Panama and maybe Colombia at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete stems carrying 6 to 8 , all along the upper half of the stem, articulate, lanceolate, acuminate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, without a spathe, paniculate, arcuate, peduncle thin, laterally compressed, 1.8” [4.5 cm] long, with a clasping, long-acuminate, bract at the first branch, 3.8" [9.5 cm] long overall, simultaneously 6 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers with no color or fragrance data provided.

"Epidendrum pirrense belongs to the GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum which has caespitose plants, cane-like stems, apical inflorescence, the petals filiform and the lip mostly 4-lobed, pollinia unequal, bird-wing-type. This species has small flowers on an inflorescence with a long thin peduncle, the sepals .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long. It is very similar to E. parviflorum which has smaller leaves, a shorter, thicker peduncle with very similar flowers. Epidendrum poeppigii Hágsater is also similar but has successive flowers, and the leaves about half as wide, the peduncle of the inflorescence thicker and shorter." Hagsater etal 2001

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 471 Hagsater 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 drawing fide;

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