Epidendrum splendens Schlechter 1921 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum
Photo by © Felix Corcuera Clermont
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Splendid Epidendrum
Flower Size
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, terete, cane–like, covered at the base by tubular sheaths, leafy stems carrying erect-spreading, distichous, alternate, dark green, oblong to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, apex obtuse, leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, long-pedunculate, , peduncle elongate, terete, erect, straight; covered by about 6 clasping, tubular, acute, imbricating bracts, 7.2 to 14" [18 to 35 cm] long overall, rachis, short, .88 to 1.2" [2.2 to 3 cm] long, sub-globose, successively several, densely many flowered inflorescence with spreading, small, lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non fragrant flowers.
Often cited as a synonym of E schomburgkia
"Epidendrum splendens is part of GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum Characterized as a subgroup by the bicallose lip with a central, narrow, long, wavy keel, the column is apically high and the anther is generally decumbent. The species is recognized by its epiphytic habit, distichous leaves, an apical inforescence of numerous and successive resupinate fowers. The lip deeply 3–lobed with a long middle carina in the middle lobe. It can be found on the roadsides. Similar to Epidendrum schomburgkii Lindl. with similar orange flowers and plant, but the last difers by having a yellow ring in the apex of the column." Karen Gil & Juan Sebastián Moreno 2018
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 93 Peru Schlechter 1921; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren -Atlas 57: 475 Schlechter 1921 drawing fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide; ICONES COLOMBIANAE 2
