Epidendrum sucumbiense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum

TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sucumbios Epidendrum [A province of Ecuador where the type was found]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm] wide

Found in northern Ecuador near the Colombian border on the eastern slope of the Andes at elevations of 2100 to 2350 meters as a medium sized, cold growing lithophyte with simple, erect, terete, cane-like, stright stems carrying 6 to 13, all along the stem, alternate, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, arising on a mature cane, without a spathe, occuring only once, erect, paniculate, peduncle terete, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, 1 to 2, acuminate, conduplicate bracts, 5.2 to 5.6" [13 to 14.5 cm] long overall, simultaneously 22 to 80 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate, gradually shorter towards the apex floral bracts and carrying resupinate, green and white flowers.

"Epidendrum sucumbiense belongs to the GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum , recognized by the caespitose habit, cane-like stems, paniculate inflorescence, filiform petals, four-lobed lip and bird-wing type pollinia. This species has green and white colored 4 simultaneous flowers, with two prominent, triangular, laminar calli, and 6.3-6.8 mm long sepalsIt is similar to Epidendrum parviflorum whose sepals are smaller, .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long. Epidendrum poeppigii Hágsater has longer leaves, 3.6 to 6.8" [9 to 17 cm] long. Epidendrum agoyanense Hágsater & Dodson has a somewhat similar habit, but leaves are wider, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] wide, flowers are larger with sepals .36 to .44" [9 to 11 mm] long and the apical lobes much reduced. Epidendrum yungasense Rolfe has flowers about the same size but much thinner, the column slender, and the lip is spotted with purple." Hagsater etal 2001

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidaeacrum 4 plate 489 Hagsater & Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1472 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo good;

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