GROUP Alpicolum

Characterized by the simple, cane-like stems, narrowly elliptic acute leaves, long, narrow, 1 to 2 spathaceous bracts giving rise to a foxtail-like inflorescence with small flowers with a lip that is fleshy, prominently midveined when dry, a triangular midlobe and large orbicular lateral lobes that are larger in surface area than the midlobe, also with a prominent, emarginate, entire clinandrum

    GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum

    Characterized by the simple, cane-like stems, long, narrow 1 to 3 spathaceous bracts, fox-tail-like inflorescence and numerous flowers with fleshy lip.

  1. Epidendrum acuminatum Ruiz & Pav. 1798 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  2. Epidendrum aenigmaticum Hágsater & Dodson 2007 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum alopecurum Schltr. 1929 Bolivia

  4. Epidendrum alpicola Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  5. Epidendrum alpicolonigrense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum anthoceroides Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  7. Epidendrum anthoceros Linden & Rchb.f. 1854 Ecuador Peru

  8. Epidendrum arcuiflorum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 Costa Rica Panama

  9. Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. 1836 Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia

  10. Epidendrum boscoense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  11. Epidendrum charpinii Hágsater & E.Santiago 2010 Venezuela

  12. Epidendrum cornutum Lindl. 1841 Ecuador Peru

  13. Epidendrum delsyae Hagsater & Cisneros 2020 Peru

  14. Epidendrum falcisepalum Lehm & Kranzel 1899 Ecuador

  15. Epidendrum klotzscheanum Rchb.f. 1850 Venezuela, Colombia, and northern Brazil

  16. Epidendrum leucosmoalpicola Hágsater & García-Llatas 2020 Peru

  17. Epidendrum minutiflorum C.Schweinf. 1943 Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  18. Epidendrum morilloi Hágsater & E.Santiago 2010 Venezuela

  19. Epidendrum natator Hagsater 2021 Peru

  20. Epidendrum oblongialpicola Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  21. Epidendrum panteonense Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989 Bolivia

  22. Epidendrum popayanense F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Colombia

  23. Epidendrum powellii Schltr. 1922 Costa Rica Panama

  24. Epidendrum praeteritum Hagsater 2019 Ecuador

  25. Epidendrum pucunoense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  26. Epidendrum roezlii Hágsater 2016 Colombia

  27. Epidendrum samaipatense Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989 Bolivia

  28. Epidendrum tequendamae F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Colombia

  29. Epidendrum yanatilense Damian & Hágsater 2016 Peru

  30. Epidendrum zosterifolium F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Ecuador

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Cyclotylosum Synonym =

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Pergracile Characterized by the sympodial, caspitose to sometimes somewhat creeping habit, stems cane-like, simple, several leaved, with an elongate, apical, racemose, lax-flowered inflorescence, the flowers are star-shaped, membranaceous, the lip 3-lobed, not fleshy thickened, bicallose, the mid-lobe rectangular to triangular, the lateral lobes dolabriform to semi-orbicular

  1. Epidendrum campii Hágsater & Dodson 2004

  2. Epidendrum corallinum Hágsater 2009 Colombia

  3. Epidendrum dolichobotryoides Hágsater, E.Santiago et Chocce-Peña 2013 Peru

  4. Epidendrum cyclotylosum Hágsater 2004 Peru

  5. Epidendrum gracilibracteatum Hágsater & Dodson 2001Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum hartmanii Hágsater & L.Sánchez 2013 Colombia

  7. Epidendrum involutum Hágsater & E.Santiago 2013 Ecuador

  8. Epidendrum pergracile Schltr. 1921 Ecuador

  9. Epidendrum rhodoides Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  10. Epidendrum sulcatum Ames 1922 Colombia, Peru

  11. Epidendrum vidal-senegei Hágsater 1999 Ecuador or Peru?

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Dialychilum

Charactereized by the free, narrowly elliptic, acute lip, the filiform petals, and the short column with a prominent, irregular clinandrium prolonged on both sides at the base into wings; the stigmatic cavity occupies the apical half of the ventral surface, the basal half prominently sulcate.

  1. Epidendrum dialychilum Hágsater & Dodson 1993 Ecuador and Peru

  2. Epidendrum dialyrhombicum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum pterostele Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  4. Epidendrum rhopalostele Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Peru

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 128 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 444 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 451 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 636 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 128 Hagsater & Salazar 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 396 Hagsater & Salazar 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 406 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 407 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 411 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 419 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 434 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 440 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 464 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 475 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 476 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 480 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 481 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 703 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 714 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 716 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 730 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 as Group pergracile subgroup Rhodoidessee recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 874 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 9 Plate 902 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 plate 1103 Hagsater & Soto 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1163 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1199 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1227 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1314 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1333 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1343 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1359 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 1424 Hagsater 2013 as E dolichobotryoides see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1588 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1596 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1597 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1672 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1748 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1776 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1809 2020 see recognition section