Epidendrum cylindraceum Lindl. 1844 GROUP Mancum SUBGROUP Cylindraceum Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Cylindrical Epidendrum [refers to the inflorescence shape]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry, montane cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome, giivng rise to erect, cane-like, branching stems enveloped by flattened, vaginate sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 per branch, apical, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, acute, clasping at the rounded base, erect-spreading leaves that blooms in the spring to summer on a terminal, erect, 13.6" [34 cm] long, rather dense, many flowered, inflorescence mostly enveloped by 2 to 3, close, equitant, imbricating, elongate spathes

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter. 1921; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:66 Schlechter 1924; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 375 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1213 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1234 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1239 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1271 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section;

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