Epidendrum podocarpophilum Schltr. 1921 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea
TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Photo by © Patricia Harding
LATE
Common Name The Podocarpus Loving Epidendrum [A type of Yew Tree]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador in montane forests on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a branching, arising from the subapical internodes of the previous stems, cane-like, terete, thin, erect, straight stem carrying 3 to 5, towards the apex, erect-spreading, alternate, articulate, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, bilobed, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, subnutant, subsessile, short to .8" [2 cm] long, oval to subglobose, densely, mostly simultaneously 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with patent, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying small, fleshy, flowers.
"Epidendrum podocarpophilum is part of GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea characterized by the branching plants linear-lanceolate to oblong leaves the apex bilobed, racemose, arching-nutant inflorescence, membranaceous, rarely fleshy flowers, the entire to 3-lobed, ecallose lip with the margin erose and with or without 1 to 10 thin, smooth to erose keels, the column completely free to obliquely united to the lip, the anther reniform. The species is recognized by the oblong-lanceolate leaves 1.2 to 2.6" [3 to 6.5 cm] long, inflorescence .8" [2 cm] long, with some 17 pale, orange colored flowers, sepals .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, the 3-lobed lip with 3, short, smooth keels. Epidendrum globiflorum Rchb.f. has oblong-ovate leaves .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long, a .4" [1 cm] long inflorescence with 7 to 8 greenish-white flowers, sepals .24 to .3" [6.0 to 7.5 mm] long sepals, and a 3-lobed lip without keels. Epidendrum pseudoglobiflorum Hágsater & Dodson has orange to reddish, trumpet-shaped flowers, sepals connate at the base, .256 to .28" [6.4 to 7 mm] long, and an entire lip with 7 keels. Epidendrum restrepoanum A.D.Hawkes from Colombia has carmine-red flowers, the sepals dorsally pustulate, .24 to .36" [6 to 9] mm long and the lip with 7 keels." Hagsater 2009
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 81 Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 357 Schlechter 1929 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo not = E restrepoanum; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 709 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 756 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 780 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005; I cones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 837 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 979 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1277 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1499 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo not = E cf paniculatum; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 not = E restrepoanum; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1841 Hagsater, Santiago and Medina 2020 see recognition section
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