GROUP Physinga

Characterized by the generally small, caespitose plants with an apical, racemose inflorescence that produces new racemse in time and carries successively opening flowers with only one open at a time on an elongate peduncle with acuminate bracts, an entire lip and an ovary with a prominent vesicule.

  1. Epidendrum acreense (Brieger & Bicalho) Christenson 1991 Brazil

  2. Epidendrum ceticaudatum Rinc.-González, Villanueva & E.Santiago 2015 Colombia

  3. Epidendrum cystosum Ames 1934 Chiapas Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica

  4. Epidendrum gasteriferum Scheeren 1974 Mexico

  5. Epidendrum hellerianum A.D.Hawkes 1966 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia

  6. Epidendrum macroclinium Hágsater 1987 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama

  7. Epidendrum magnicallosum C.Schweinf. 1943 Venezuela and Peru

  8. Epidendrum massif-hottense Hágsater 2019 Haiti

  9. Epidendrum physodes Rchb.f. 1873 Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama

  10. Epidendrum polygonatum Lindl. 1858 Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic

  11. Epidendrum prostratum (Lindl.) Cogn. 1898 Guyana Ecuador Peru

  12. Epidendrum strobilicaule Hágsater & Benelli. 2008 Brazil

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 054 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 432 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1159 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1184 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1325 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1353 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1511 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1734 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition setion; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1738 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition setion; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1789 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1833 Hagsater, Pfahl & Cisneros 2020 see recognition section;

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