GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Excisum

Characterized by the sympodial, caespitose habit and the cane-like stems carrying many leaves and 1 to 2 large spathes which give rise to a racemose to open panicle with a few branches carrying medium sized flowers with a three-lobed lip.

  1. Epidendrum baezense Hágsater & Dodson 1993 Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum excisum Lindl. 1844 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

  3. Epidendrum llaviucoense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  4. Epidendrum modestum Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 Peru

  5. Epidendrum tenuispathum C.Schweinf. 1952 Peru

  6. Epidendrum urubambae Hágsater 2001 Peru

  7. Epidendrum utcuyacuense Hágsater 1993 Peru

GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-guilielmi

Characterized by the sympodial habit, tall, unbranched stems, 3 to 5, unequal leaves, the sub-erect inflorescence with prominent spathe.

  1. Epidendrum carlos-uribei Hágsater & E.Santiago 2016 Colombia

  2. Epidendrum cocuyense Hágsater & E.Santiago 2016 Colombia

  3. Epidendrum friderici-guilielmi [Lindley] Rchb.f & Warsc. 1854 Peru Bolivia

  4. Epidendrum robinson-galindoi Hágsater, Uribe Vélez & E.Santiago 2018 Colombia

  5. Epidendrum sisgaense Hágsater 2001 Colombia and Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum totoroense J.S.Moreno, Hágsater, E.Santiago & Erazo 2016 Colombia

  7. Epidendrum trilobochilum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Colombia

GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Leucochilum

Characterized by the caespitose plants with cane-like, erect stems, fleshy leaves, the base of the inflorescence with 1 to 2, spathe-like bracts, star-shaped flowers with narrow sepals and pctals, and a prominent, acuminate, lip.

  1. Epidendrum atonum Hágsater & Dodson 2004 Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum burtonii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 Peru

  3. Epidendrum coxianum Rchb.f.1877 Ecuador

  4. Epidendrum lacustre Lindl. 1853 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

  5. Epidendrum lehmannii Rchb.f. 1878 Ecuador Peru

  6. Epidendrum leucochilum Klotzsch 1843 Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 087 Hamer 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 721 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 919 Dodson 1984; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 045 Bennett & Christenson 1993 see comments; Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 242 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 247 Bennett & Christenson 1995 see comments; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 458 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 458 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 111 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 180 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 194 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 336 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 454 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 466 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 485 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 494 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 496 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 499 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 500 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 635 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 708 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 754 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 820 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 936 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1135 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1260 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1575 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1578 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [2] Plate 1598 Hagsater & Sanchez 2016 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1654 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section;