Epidendrum macrostachyum Lindl. 1845 GROUP Macrostachyum SUBGROUP Macrostachyum Photo by Jay Pfahl ©
Reflexed Petaled Flower Photos by Roberto Angulo ©
Common Name The Large Inflorescence Epidendrum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia at elevations of 1400 to 3800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial in very damp moss cloud forests with a short rhizome giving rise to erect cane-like stems completely enveloped by lightly scabrous sheaths that are evanescent below and become leaf-bearing above and carrying several, disitichous, somewhat rugose above, smooth below, linear, acute, clasping below leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, racemose, erect, many flowered, slightly compressed inflorescence carrying fleshy flowers..
These three Epi. macrostachyum were found in Colombia in the department of Cauca on el Vulcan de Purace at elevations of 2900 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte blooms in the spring on a many successively single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Epidendrum bangii Rolfe 1907; Epidendrum chondrochilum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Epidendrum coordinatum Rchb. f. 1876; Epidendrum dermatanthum Kraenzl. 1905; Epidendrum magnibracteum Kraenzl. 1920; Epidendrum rigidiflorum Schltr. 1923; Epidendrum rostrigerum Rchb. f. 1876; Epidendrum sterroanthum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum xylostachyum Lindl. 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list as Epidendrum bangii, IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E sterroanthum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendruim rigidiflorum; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 532 Dodson & Vasquez 1982 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 147 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 163 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 168 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 169 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 171 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E xylostachyum photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 335 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 389 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 458 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 707 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 776 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 790 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 491 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 798 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 853 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1378 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section
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