Epidendrum marsupiale F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Megagastrium
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Common Name The Bag-Shaped Lip Epidendrum
Flower Size [1 5/8" [4 cm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests on steep embankments at elevations of 1500 to 3200 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing litho-terrestrial or epiphyte with branching, cane-like stems enveloped by tubular sheaths and carries a few, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer through mid winter on a short, two flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of a mature cane.
Synonyms Epidendrum cajamarcae Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum geminiflorum Kunth 1816
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as E geminiflorum; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as E cajamarcae; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:67 Schlechter 1924 as E geminiflorum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as E geminiflorum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum geminiflorum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 080 Dodson 1980 as E geminiflorum; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 as Epidendrum geminiflorum; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 050 Bennett & Christenson 1993 see comments as E cajamarcae and E geminiflorum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E geminiflorum; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 394 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section as E geminiflorum; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 428 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo as E geminiflorum; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1269 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section as E geminiflorum
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