Epidendrum vesicatum Lindl. 1838 GROUP Loefgrenii
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Common Name The Bladder Epidendrum [refers to the inflated nectary that forms a vesicle]
Flower Size 3/4" [.6 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, pendent epiphyte with an ancipitous stem enveloped completely by alternate, imbricating sheaths and carrying longly oblong, acute, equitant, articulate to the leaf base leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, arcuate to pendant, several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and often hidden within the leaves.
"The Braziian, pendent species Epidendrum vesicatum Lindl., is part of GROUP Loefgrenii characterized by the sympodial, caespitose plants blooming on a terminal, subumbelliform inflorescence subtended by prominent, wide, truncate, spathaceous bracts and has an ovary with an inflated nectary that forms a vesicle. The species has glaucous vegetative parts, is superficially similar to E trianthum in the subumbeliform inflorescence, and the general shape of the flowers. E trianthum has erect plants, with large, conduplicate, ancipitose spathaceous bracts, green flowers, the sepals dorsally tinged with purple-pink, the ovary slightly inflated with longitudinal, dentate wings behind the perianth. seems to have some vegetative similarities with Epidendrum phylocharis Rchb.f., sharing the ancipitose stems and the short two-winged peduncle of the apical inflorescence, and the wide, conduplicate spathaceous bracts at the apex of the peduncle; the floral bracts however are very different." Adapted from E trianthum Icones plate 1191 Hagsater etal 2008
Synonyms Epidendrum vesicatum var. roseum Barb.Rodr. 1882
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as E rodriguesii drawing/Photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1191 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;
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