Epidendrum excisum Lindl. 1844 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Excisum type

Plant ensitu in Cundiamarca Colombia Closeup Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name In Latin = torn out, cutout or castrated?

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia at eleavtions of 2350 to 2500 meters in cool cloud forests on steep rocky, grass and brush covered slopes as a large sized, cool to cold growing, reedstem epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 1800 to 4150 meters with erect, leafy stems enveloped basally by a few, tubular, inflated, scarious sheaths and carrying several, ligulate, emarginate, coriaceous, bilobed apically, conduplicate below, into the clasping base leaves that blooms throughout the year on a 11' [28 cm] long, massive, many flowered panicle arising from the apex of a mature stem and having a spathaceous bract.

Synonyms Epidendrum excisum var. grandiflorum Lindl. 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:66 Schlechter 1924; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 111 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 194 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 458 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 336 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 454 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 466 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 485 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 494 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 496 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 500 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 754 Hagsater 2004 see recognition sectionIcones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 936 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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