IOSPE PHOTOS

Epidendrum soratae Rchb.f. 1878 GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Soratae

TYPE Drawing by Š Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Sorata Epidendrum [A town in Bolivia]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 2700 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with terete, branching from the middle to upper nodes of the stem carrying numerous on the main stem, lanceolate, aristate, those on the main stem are larger than the leaves on the side stem, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late spring through late winter on a terminal, sub-capitate, occuring only once, 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying successively opening, several open at a time, resupinate, greenish yellow flowers.

"Epídendrum soratae belongs to the GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Soratae which is characterized by the branching habit starting on a monopodial, primary stem, infundibuliform, rugose leaf-sheaths, lanceolate, aristate, acute leaves, racemose subcapitate inflorescence on a short, thin peduncle, and the bicallose lip. The species can be recognized by the reniform, apically somewhat 3-lobed, bicallose lip, and the .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long sepals, Epídendrum oblíquum Schltr. has a reniform, emarginate lip .16 x .32" [4 x 8 mm] in size and a straight column. Epídendrum cardenasíí Hágsater has larger flowers, .48 to .52" [12 to 13 mm] long sepals, the lip bilobed, widely emarginate and about as long as it is wide, the base short cordate and the calli laminar and divaricate. Epídendrum tetragonoides Hágsater & Dodson has a rectangular lip, the apex truncate, sepals .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, the lip is oblong-rectangular, with two inconspicuous lobes at the base. Epidendrum cartilaginiflorum has a cordiform, somewhat 3-lobed-lip with the apex obtuse, rounded, and the sepals are .64 [16 mm] long. Epídendrum ardens Kraenzl. has bright orange flowers, with an entire lip. The name has been often been misapplied to a Antillean species, now named E. annabelae Nir which has an apiculate reniform to broadly cordiform lip and .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long-sepals " Hagsater etal 2007

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