Epidendrum arbusculum Lindl. 1842 GROUP Arbusculum SUBGROUP Arbusculum type Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo by © Dale Borders

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Tree-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size to more than 1" [to more than 2.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras El Salvador in elfin and cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing, reedstem epiphyte with a branching stem enveloped basally by scarious sheaths carrying distichous, articulated to the upper sheaths, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaves that are conduplicate towards the base that blooms on a terminal, pendulous, to 8" [20 cm]long, racemose inflorescence with several to many simultaneously opening flowers occuring in the winter.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Die Orchideen #9 33-36 tafel 9 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 706 Hamer/Dodson 1982 see recognition section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 716 Hamer/Dodson 1982 see recognition section;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 724 Hamer/Dodson 1982 see recognition section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 743 Hamer/Dodson 1982 see observations; Icones Orchidaceaerum 2 Plate 103 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 2 Plate 110 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 2 Plate 121 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 2 Plate 134 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 2 Plate 145 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 162 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 303 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 312 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 330 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 344 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 375 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 445 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 499 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 657 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 575 Hagsater 2002 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 7 Plate 710 Hagsater 2004 See recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 7 Plate 768 Hagsater 2004 See recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 7 Plate 779 Hagsater 2004 See recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 8 Plate 804 Hagsater 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 808 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 812 Hagsater 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 804 Hagsater 2006 see recogniotion section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 8 Plate 814 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 834 Hagsater 2006 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 843 Hagsater 2006 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 844 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 850 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 858 Hagsater 2006 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 890 Hagsater 2006 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 927 Hagsater 2007 see recognotion section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 949 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 955 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 974 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1109 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1120 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1129 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1186 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition; Icones Orchidacearum Part 13 Plate 1374 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section;

GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula

1. Epidendrum alabastrialatum Pollard ex Hágsater 1978 Mexico Nicaragua

2. Epidendrum alticola Ames & Correll 1942 Mexico Guatemala

3. Epidendrum amayense Hagsater 1999 Colombia

4. Epidendrum arbusculum Lindl. 1842

5. Epidendrum badium Hágsater 1993 Guatemala

6. Epidendrum bakrense Hagsater & Kremers 1999 Brazil

7. Epidendrum camposii Hágsater 1993 Mexico

8. Epidendrum chimantense Hagstaer & Carnevali 1993 Venezuela

9. Epidendrum foldatsii Hágsater & Carnevali 1993 Venezuela

10. Epidendrum greenwoodii Hágsater 1987 Mexico, Guatemala El Salvador

11. Epidendrum holmnielsenii Hagsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

12. Epidendrum karstenii Rchb.f. 1876 Colombia

13. Epidendrum lamprochilum Hágsater 1999 Colombia

14. Epidendrum lechleri Rchb.f 1876Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

15. Epidendrum magnificum Schltr. 1918 Mexico

16. Epidendrum nelsonii Hágsater 1987 Guatemala

17. Epidendrum nephroglossum Schlechter 1921

18. Epidendrum nicaraguense Scheeren ex Hágsater 1993 Nicaragua

19. Epidendrum nubium Rchb.f. 1866 Meico, Guatemala, Honduras, El SAlvador, Nicaragua

20. Epidendrum polychromum Hágsater 1979 El Salvadoe and Guatemala

21. Epidendrum pomecense Hágsater 1999 Colombia

22. Epidendrum radioferens [Ames,F.T.Hubb.& C.Schweinf.]Hagsater 1977 Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

23. Epidendrum tacanaense Hagsater, Soto & Santiago 2008 Mexico