Epidendrum rubroticum Hágsater 1993 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum
Photos by © Pierre Courtinard
TYPE Drawing by © Eric Hagsater and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Purple Epidendrumdrum
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in the Guadeloupe [potentially extinct], Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada as a large to giant sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, terete, cane-like stems carrying many coriaceous, elliptic-obovate, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, subumbellate, racemose, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by non-carinate, adpressed sheaths and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Verified by Hagsater personal Comment 2017
Synonyms Epidendrum calanthum var. rubrum Stehlé 1939; *Epidendrum elongatum Jacq. ssp. rubrum (Stehlé) Sastré, 1990; Epidendrum ramosum var. lanceolatum Griseb. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as Epidendrum calanthum var. rubrum drawing ok; *Orquideas (Mexico City), n.s., 13: 216 Hagsater 1993; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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