Epidendrum ibaguense H.B.K. 1816 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Calanthum Complex Flexuosum Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name Ibague' Epidendrum [Colombian town]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.25 cm]
This is a highly variable, large sized, erect, hot to warm growing, reedstem terrestrial or lithophytic species at elevations of that is found from Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and northern Brazil with terete stems enveloped by grey or brown sheaths carrying elliptic, disticuous, acute or obtuse leaves that is freeblooming year round on a terminal, erect, to 14" [35 cm] long, simple or few branched, raceme with an apical cluster of blooms that open in succession over a long period of time and needs even year round conditions.
Synonyms Epidendrum baumannianum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum bituberculatum Rolfe 1892; Epidendrum fraternum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum miquelii Schltr. 1925; Epidendrum planiceps Kraenzl. 1911; Epidendrum smithii Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum sororium Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E fraternum; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E smithii; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E sororium; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 731 Dodson 1982 see observations; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 8 1983 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 040 Hagsater 1990 see recognition section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1433 Atwood 1992 see observations; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 7 1993 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1171 see recognition section Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;
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