Epidendrum trullatigeminiflorum Hagsater, E Santaigo & D Trujillo 2020 GROUP Megagastrium SUBGROUP Geminiflorum
TYPE Drawing by © R Jimenez M and Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1843 2020
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Common Name The Trowel Shaped E geminiflorum Epidendrum [refers to the shape of the lip and being 2 flowered like E geminiflorum]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of Peru on the eastern slope of Carpish Pass at elevations of 2500 to 2600 meters as a medium to large sized, cold, scandent growing terrestrial with simple, cane-like, produced from a middle internode of the previous stem, terete at base and somewhat laterally compressed at the apex stems basally covered by tubular, non-foliar, grey to brown when fresh, becoming scarious and fibrous with age sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, aggregate towards the apex of each stem, articulate, alternate; tubular, infundibuliform when dry, minutely striated leaf sheaths, blade oblong-elliptic, obtuse, apex unequally bilobed, coriaceous, margin entire, spreading leaves that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on a terminal, arising through a basally tubular, conduplicate above, obtuse spathe, peduncle .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2.0 cm] long, totally hidden within the spathe; rachis very short, 2.8" [7 cm] long including the flowers, racemose, erect, closely successively 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with deltoid, acute, embracing, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, erect, fleshy flowers.
"Epidendrum trullatigeminiflorum belongs to the GROUP Megagastrium SUBGROUP Geminiflorum, characterized by simple, sympodial, scandent, straggling habit, the semi-ovate spathe, the erect stems with 3 to 10 coriaceous leaves, and few non-resupinate flowers, and the lip with laminar calli, disc flat. The species is recognized by the vigorous growth, large orange flowers, the sepals .64 to .76" [17.0 to 19.0 mm] long, petals lanceolate, and the lip entire and trullate, somewhat narrowly cordate at the base, widest near the middle. It closely resembles Epidendrum geminiflorum Kunth which has green to greenish yellow flowers, where the lip clearly is widest at the base and it has two small sub-orbicular lateral lobes, the mid-lobe being widely triangular and sub-acute. Epidendrum cuencanum Schltr. has greenish white flowers, a cordiform lip, widest near the base, and the leaves widely elliptic to 1.72" [4.3 cm] wide. Epidendrum azuayense Hágsater & E.Santiago has smaller, orange colored flowers, the sepals .52 to .72" [13 to 18 mm] long and a widely cordiform lip. Epidendrum geminiochraceum Hágsater & E.Santiago also has orange flowers but these are larger, the sepals are .84 to .92" [21 to 23 mm] long, and the lip is clearly 3-lobed, the lateral lobes hemi-orbicular, and has two, very prominent spathes at the base of the inflorescence." Hagsater & Santiago 2020
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1843 Hagsater & Santiago 2020 TYPE Drawing/photo fide;
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