Epidendrum tequendamae F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum

Drawing

Photo by Carlos Uribe/Drawing by © Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

MID THROUGH

Common Name The Tequendama Epidendrum [A waterfall outside of Bogota near where the type was collected]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia on the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in the transition zone between humid forests and the very wet, low, montane forests at elevations of 1700 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, ancipitous, erect, straight stems carrying 3 to 6, articulate, alternate, sub-coriaceous, unequal in length, basally smaller, linear-lanceolate, acute, erect, sub-parallel to the stem, margin entire leaves that blooms in the mid fall through spring on a terminal, racemose, arched, peduncle 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, laterally compressed, erect, striaght, almost completely enveloped by the 1 to 2, tubular, conduplicate, acute, papiraceous spathes, apically provided with a linear-oblong, acuminate, clasping bract, to 6.4" [16 cm] long, sub-densely, simultaneously about 45 flowered inflorescence with prominent, about as long as the ovary, linear-triangular, acuminate, clasping floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.

"Epidendrum tequendamae belongs to the GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum which is characterized by the simple, cane-like stems, 1 to 2 long, narrow, spathaceous bracts, fox-tail-like inflorescence and numerous flowers with a fleshy lip, triangular mid-lobe and roundish lateral lobes. The species is recognized by the long rounded wings of the column, which therefore puts the clinandrium-hood at the middle of the column when seen from above, the ochre colored flowers, with the column and anther pale greenish white. Epidendrum roezlii Hágsater has the clinandrium-hood at the apex of the column, the same level as the apex of the column wings. Epidendrum anthoceros Rchb.f. has oblong leaves, spreading sepals .4 to .44" [10 to 11 mm] long, lateral lobes of the lip erose-denticulate, mid-lobe linear-triangular, short acuminate. Epidendrum aenigmaticum Hágsater & Dodson has small flowers, ochre-orange colored inside, the lateral sepals .272 to .3" [6.8 to 7.5 mm] long, the transversely ovate-elliptic lateral lobes of the lip are upright, with the margin entire, and the mid-lobe is short and wide." Hagsater 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 252 Schlechter 1920; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 9 Plate 902 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15[2] Plate 1597 Hagsater 2016 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1596 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15[2] Plate 1597 Hagsater etal 2016 photo/drawing; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1672 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1776 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section;

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