GROUP Psilanthermum

Characterized by the fusiform pseudobulbs, racemose to paniculate inflorescence usually arising from an aborted pseudobulb carrying attractive flowers with a 4 lobed lip with divaricate, oblong lobes and yellowish dotted reddish purple

  1. Epidendrum leeanum [Rchb.f] Hagsater 2008 Colombia

  2. Epidendrum stamfordianum Bateman 1856 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela
GROUP Psilanthermum SUBGROUP Phragmites

  1. Epidendrum lilijae Foldats 1968 Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum phragmites A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams 1968 Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia

  3. Epidendrum phragmitoides Hágsater 2010 Colombia

  4. Epidendrum tripetaloides Hágsater & E.Santiago 2015 Belize and Nicaragua

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 738 Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1434 Atwood 1992; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1137 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1182 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section;

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