Epidendrum platyphylloserpens Hágsater 2001 GROUP Kalopternix SUBGOUP Serpens

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name The Wide Leaved E serpens Epidendrum

Flower Size 1” [2.5 cm]

Found in northern Peru at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold, pendent growing epiphyte with short, forming a heteroblastic pseudobulb enveloped basally by several persistent, striated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, acute, coriaceous, finely rugose, margin entire leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, without a spathe, occuring only once, racemose, sessile, .52” [1.3 cm] long, successively few, 9 flowered inflorescence with half as long as the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying nonresupinate, reddish brown, herbally scented flowers.

"Epidendrum platyphylloserpens belongs to the GROUP Kalopternix SUBGOUP Serpens characterized by the aggregate, globose pseudobulbs with fleshy-coriaceous leaves, a sessile inflorescence, one or few fleshy, compact, star-shaped flowers, often burgundy red in color, and an entire lip, more or less cordiform. The species is recognized by the pendent habit, short pseudobulbed, single, wide, elliptic, coriaceous leaf, sessile, racemose inflorescence, the reddish brown, successive, non-resupinate flowers. The species is recognized by the pendent habit, one-leafed, short pseudobulbs, the wide, elliptic, coriaceous leaf, sessile, racemose inflorescence, the reddish brown, successive, non-resupinate f1owers. It resembles Epidendrum carmelense which has narrower leaves .2 to .4" [5 to 10 mm] wide and slightly larger, greenish to ochre f1owers, the column dotted with red. Epidendrum garayi Lojtnant is very similar to the latter, but the sheaths of the pseudobulbs bear leaves identical to the apical leaf. Epidendrum ilinizae Hágsater & Dodson has similar leaves, but the habit is more elongate and the f1owers are red, solitary, with the lip deeply cordate and margin finely erose." Hagsater etal 2001

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 473 Hagsater 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 864 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1310 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1466 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1733 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1761 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1800 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section;

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