Epidendrum romanii Hágsater & Dodson 1993 GROUP Difforme

TYPE Drawing by © R Jimenez M and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name Roman's Epidendrum [Emilio Roman, Ecuadorean Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador at elevations of 600 to 1200 as a small sized, warm to cool growing caespitose epiphyte with cane-like, terete, flexuous stems carrying 5 to 9, narrowly elliptic, all along the stem, unequally bilobed, subcoriaceous, ascending leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, on a mature stem, occurring only once, shortly pedunculate, simultaneously 2 to 6 flowereed inflorescence with 1/3rd as long as the ovary, elliptic floral bracts and carrying resupinate, green yellow flowers with a nocturnal heavy coconut scent.

"Epidendrum romanii is a member of the GROUP Difforme , and can be recognized by the ascending leaves, 3-lobed lip, midlobe short and wide, deeply emarginate, forming two distinct semiorbicular lobules, the clinandrium prominent and obconical with dentate margins. It is similar to E. chlorocorymbos Schltr., which has spreading leaves, more than 10 flowers and clinandrium not obconical." Hagsater etal 1993

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 123 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 131 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; * Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 182 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 418 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section;

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