Epidendrum klotzscheanum Rchb.f. 1850 GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Klotzscheanum
Inflorescence Photos by © Jose David Lacruz and his Merida Venezuela Blogspot
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Common Name Klotzsch's Epidendrum [German Botanical Garden Director 1800's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, and northern Brazil on tepuis at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, straight stems carrying numerous, suberect, alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate, sub-acute apically, shortly bilobed, articulate and conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later summer through later winter on a terminal, racemose, nodding. densely many flowered inflorescence arising through 1 to 3, open on on one side of the upper half then conduplicate, tubular, acuminate, lanceolate spathaceous bracts and prominent but shorter than the ovary, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers. and carrying resupinate flowers
CAUTION This determination fits the descriptions, but not well, so use with caution.
Synonyms Epidendrum ernstii Schltr. 1919
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing good except mine has erose side lobes to the lip; Flora de venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good but mine has erose side lobes of the lip; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo ?; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good but mine has erose side lobes to the lip; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1314 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1314 Hagsater 2010 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1359 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section;
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