GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Polychlamys

Characterized by the successive lateral growths arising from the middle of the previous stem carrying a few leaves towards the apex and has a distichous, apical inflorescence with prominent, conduplicate, acute, glumaceous floral bracts

  1. Epidendrum atwoodchlamys Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica

  2. Epidendrum barbae Rchb.f. 1866 Costa Rica Panama

  3. Epidendrum bugabense Hágsater 1993 Panama

  4. Epidendrum cryptanthum L.O.Williams 1942 Costa Rica and Panama

  5. Epidendrum dilochioides L.O.Williams 1940 Honduras

  6. Epidendrum dolichochlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Costa Rica

  7. Epidendrum estrellense Ames 1923 Costa Rica and Panama

  8. Epidendrum gymnochlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Panama

  9. Epidendrum lutheri Hágsater 1993 Panama

  10. Epidendrum meracryptanthum Hágsater & E.Santiago 2019 Ecuador

  11. Epidendrum polychlamys Schltr. 1906 Costa Rica Panama

  12. Epidendrum puteum Standl. & L.O.Williams 1953 Costa Rica

  13. Epidendrum salpichlamys Hágsater & E.Santiago 2006 Costa Rica

  14. Epidendrum sigmoideum Hágsater 1999 Costa Rica

  15. Epidendrum vulcanicola A.H.Heller 1968 Nicaragua Costa Rica

GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Octomerioides

Characterized by the successive lateral growths, few leaves aggregate towards the apex of the stems, the distichous, apical inflorescence with prominent, conduplicate, acute floral bracts, and the Octomerioides Subgroup which has slightly thickened stems, rigid, fleshy-thickened, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate leaves, the apex unequally bilobed.

  1. Epidendrum neoporpax Ames 1934 Cuba Hispanola

  2. Epidendrum octomerioides Schltr. 1907 Honduras Nicaragua, Costa Rica Panama Colombia

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 725 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 744 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1325 Atwood 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 115 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 115 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 154 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 310 Hagsater 1999 see recogntion section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 381 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 829 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 839 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 883 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 9 Plate 911 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 924 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 934 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 967 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 976 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 999 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1740 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section

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