Epidendrum vulgoamparoanum Hágsater & L.Sánchez 2006 GROUP Difforme
Photo by © Castelfranco, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Generally Described as E amparoanum Epidendrum
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama on the Pacific slopes in dry forests at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with cane-like, laterally compressed stems carrying elliptic to ovate, unequally bilobed, margin entire, green leaves that blooms at any time of the year on an apical, occurring only once, sessile, simultaneously opening, [1 to 2] 3 to 5 [10] flowered inflorescence carrying nocturnally fragrant flowers that smell like burnt rubber.
"Epidendrum vulgoamparoanum belongs to the GROUP Difforme which is characterized by the caespitose, sympodial plants, fleshy, pale green to glaucous leaves, apical inflorescence, sessile, rarely with a short peduncle, single flowered to corymbose, without spathaceous bracts, fleshy, green to yellowish-green rarely white flowers. The species has laterally compressed stems, elliptic to ovate leaves, 7-veined sepals, a widely obovate, obscurely 3-lobed lip, with many thickened velns; the midlobe somewhat bilobed, and the prominent, erose-fimbriate clinandrium-hood. It is similar to Epidendrum yojoaense which grows in rain-forests on the Atlantic slope of Honduras, and has light glaucous-green plants and flowers, a reniform lip, rhombic petals. Differs from Epidendrum barbeyanum Kraenzl., which has ancipitose stems lanceolate sepals, distinctly 3-lobe lip, prominent flabelliform lateral lobes, midlobe smaller than the lateral lobes, and separated from it by deep sinii, forming two, divergent, triangular to subrectangular, acute to rounded lobes, and a reduced entire clinandrium-hood. Epidendrum romero-castannedae Hagsater & L.Sancnez from the inland hills around the Golfo de Darien in eastern Panama and northern Colombia has narrower leaves and narrowly elliptlc petals" Hagsater etal 2006
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 802 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 plate 811 Hagsater & Salazar 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 842 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 882 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; * Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 898 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing good; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 960 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 972 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1421 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1533 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1569 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section;
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