Epidendrum pseudogramineum D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001GROUP Macrostachyum SUBGROUP Stenophyton
Photo by © Ivan Jimenez, Jorge Quezada & Juan Carlos Bermejo and the Orquideas de Cotapata Website
TYPE Drawing by © R Jimenez M and The AMO Herbaria Website
Common Name The False E gramineum Epidendrum
Flower Size .32” [8 mm]
Found in Peru and Bolivia on the eastern slope of the Andes in elfin forests at elevations of 2900 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, branching in maturity, cane-like, terete stems carrying all along the stem, linear-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, dorsally carinate, margin erose leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, occurring only once, arching, peduncle thin, paniculate, distichous, simultaneously 3 to 25 flowered inflorescence with about as long as the ovary, ovate, obtuse apiculate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, white flowers with magenta towards the apex of the sepals and petals, the lip margin is lavender-magenta and the column is greenish white with a magenta apex.
"Epidendrum pseudogramineum belongs to the GROUP Macrostachyum SUBGROUP Stenophyton, which is characterized by the branching habit, distichous inflorescence and ovate to cordiform, entire, ecallose lip. This species has been confused with E . gramineum Lindl. = E parviflorum, which, however, has wider narrowly elliptic leaves .32" [8 mm] wide, a carinate, callose lip and much narrower, filiform petals. Epidendrum dendrobioides Thunb. has larger flowers and a racemose inflorescence. Epidendrum stenophyton Schltr. is similar in habit, but has larger flowers, the sepals being .28" [7 mm] long."
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 648 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2004 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 875 Hagsater 2006 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014;
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