Epidendrum globiflorum F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Round Flowered Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on both sides of the Andes at elevations around 2400 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, branching epiphyte with a branching, cane-like, terete at the base, laterally flattened above stems with new branches arising from the sub-apical nodes of mature stems and carryingto 15 on the basal stem,3 to 4 towards the apex of the branches, subcoriaceous, smooth, oblong-ovate, obtuse, bilobed, low dorsal keel leaves with tubular, striated leaf bearing sheaths that blooms in the summer on a racemose, few flowered, short, arching-nutant, 7 to 8 flowered inflorescence with triangulkar, acute, half as long as the ovary flroal bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, subglobose, resupinate flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum coccineum Rchb.f. 1855; Epidendrum restrepoanum A.D.Hawkes 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as E coccineum; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as E restrepoanum drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 as E restrepoanum photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as E restrepoanum photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 837 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1277 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section

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