IOSPE PHOTOS

Epidendrum yambalense Hágsater & Dodson 1993 GROUP Arbusculum SUBGROUP Incomptum

TYPE Drawing by Š Jimenez and The AMO Herbaria Website

Common Name The Rio Yambala Epidendrum [A river in Loja province of Ecuador]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southernmost Ecuador at elevations around 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, erect, terete, new stems arise from the middle internode of the previous stem and carrying 3 to 4, aggregate at the apex of the stem, narrowly elliptic, acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, without a spathe or bracts, erect, on a newly arising stem, occuring only once, racemose, erect, peduncle laterally compressed, non-ornamented, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, successivley single, 4 to 7 flowereed inflorescence with slightly shorter than half the length of the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, yellow green flowers with some purple on the lip.

"Epidendrum yambalense is part of the GROUP Arbusculum SUBGROUP Incomptum characterized by the successive lateral growths produced from the middle of the previous growth, few leaves aggregate towards the apex of the stems, a short apical inflorescence with fleshy greenish to violet-green flowers with short ovaries, the lip entire to 3-lobed. This plant has erect stems where the new growth arises from a middle internode of the previous stem, short , 4 to 7 flowered racemes and membranaceous, green flowers with 3-lobed, purplish lip with raised veins, suborbicular lateral lobes and subquadrate, apiculate midlobe. Epidendrum morganii Dodson & Garay is closely related but has an entire, cordiform lip." Hagsater etal 1993

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