Epidendrum sisgaense Hágsater 2001 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-Guilielmi

Plant and Inflorescense In situ Zipaquira, Lago Redondo Colombia 9/20

Side View of Flower

Detail of Lip and Column

Photos by © Jay Pfahl

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and the The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sisga Dam Epidendrum [A Dam and Lake to the north of Bogota in Colombia]

Flower Size 1.2" ]3 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests among bushes at elevations around 2400 to 3600 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte and terrestrial with simple, cane-like, terete below, laterally compressed above stems carrying 3 to 5, aggregate towards the apex, oblong-elliptic, acute, apiculate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late summer through early spring on a terminal, racemose or paniculate, suberect, peduncle completly enveloped by the laterally flattened spathe, occasionally with a spathe like bract at the middle, simultaenously several flowered inflorescence with progeressively diminishing in size, from as long as the ovary to shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, green to browish green flowers with a purple pink to reddish-brown hued column and lip.

"Epidendrum sisgaense is closely related to the GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-Guilielmi, recognized by the tall, unbranched stems, carrying 3 to 5, unequal leaves, the suberect inflorescence with prominent spathes; the species has a more or less a pandurate 3-lobed lip, sepals .64 to .78" [16 to 19.5 mm] long, flowers green with pinkish-purple tinge. Epidendrum trilobochilum Hágsater & Dodson has a very similar shaped lip but shorter stems, smaller flowers, sepals ,52 to .64" [13 to 16 mm] long, and the mid-lobe of the lip wider than long. Epidendrum fruticetorum Schltr. has sepals .6 [15 mm] long, and the lip 3- lobed, with the mid-lobe oblong, acuminate, .24 x .148" [6 x 3.75 mm]. Epidendrum klotzscheanum Rchb.f. has more numerous leaves, up to 12, an arching, densely many-flowered inflorescence, the lip clearly 3- lobed, the lateral lobes obovate, mid-lobe rectangular, about twice as long as wide" Hagsater etal 2001

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 485 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Fernandez 2003 photo good; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1359 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1372 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1575 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1578 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1598 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1} Plate 1654 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section;

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