Epidendrum stellidifforme Hágsater & Dodson 2001 GROUP Difforme
Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of "> Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Star Difforme Epidendrum
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in wet premontane forests at elevations of 650 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, erect, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, erect, slightly compressed stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and articulated to the 3 to 5, equidistant on the stem, can occur more than once, coriaceous, smooth, elliptic to lanceolate, unequally bilobed, somewhat carinate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, on a mature stem, sessile, simultaneously 1 to rarely 2, flowered inflorescence with triangular, shorter than the ovary, acute floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.
"Part of the GROUP Difforme but can be distinguished by the larger plant, longer flowers with lanceolate petals, suborbicular-cordiform lip with an acuminate apex. It can be confused with E jejunum but differs in the smaller plants and flowers, the narrowly elliptic to rhombic petals and a suborbicular-reniform lip with a short apicule." Hagsater 2001
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 487 Hagsater 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 824 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 923 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 928 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 941 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1256 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 as E aff stellidifforme drawing/photos fide;
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