Photo/ TYPE Drawing by L. Valenzuela G. and The AMO Herbario Website
EARLIER
Common Name The Trowel Epidendrum [in reference to the shape of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Huancavelica and Junín departments of central Peru in spiny steppe forest of Puna at elevations of 2800 to 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, slightly sinuous, produced from near the apex of the previous stem, terete at base, laterally compressed towards the apex; base covered with non-foliar, becoming scarious and fibrous sheaths and carrying 9 to 11, distributed throughout the upper half of the stem, articulate, distichous, sub-spreading in respect to the stem, sub-coriaceous; sheaths tubular, laterally compressed, somewhat infundibuliform in dry specimen, minutely striated, rugose; blade lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, margin entire, slightly revolute leaves that blooms in the earlier spring on a terminal, without a spathe, peduncle .4" [10 mm] long, laterally compressed, erect then arcuate-nodding, without bracts; rachis .2" [5 mm] long, .6" [1.5 cm] long overall, 1.6" [4 cm] long including the flowers, flowering only once, successively single, eventually all open at once, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, narrowly triangular, acuminate, embracing floral bracts and carrying resupinate, membranaceous, pale green flowers with no fragrance. Hagsater etal 2019
"Epidendrum trullatum belongs to the GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Soratae , characterized by the branching habit, superposed stems, infundibuliform, rugose leaf-sheaths, lanceolate-oblong, aristate leaves, no spathe, and a compact, racemose, nutant inflorescence on a short peduncle. The new species can be recognized by the .68 to .72" x .14 to .16" [17 to 18 x 3.5 to 4.0 mm] long sepals, lanceolate-linear petals, trullate to angular-ovate lip .44 to .6" x .4 to .46" [11 to 15 x 10.0 to 11.5 mm], acuminate to rounded at the apex. Epidendrum cardenasii from Bolivia has smaller flowers, sepals .48 to .52" x .2 to .24" [12 to 13 x 5 to 6 mm], and the lip .36 to .4" x .452 to .5" [9 to 10 x 11.3 to 12.5 mm], reniform, bilobed, apically emarginate with a thick mucro in the sinus, lobes semi-ovate." Hagsater etal 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1753 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 Drawing fide
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