Epidendrum mancum Lindl 1844 GROUP Mancum SUBGROUP Mancum Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo by © Byron Rinke

Partial shadeCoolColdLATEWinterEARLYSpring

Common Name or Meaning The Mutilated Hand Epidendrum [refers to the much reduced lip]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane low, elfin cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with flattened, cane-like stems enveloped by leafless below and 3 to 4 leaf bearing sheaths above and carrying rigid, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, apically bilobed, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, simple, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane through 1 to 2, conduplicate spathes and carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 429 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0065 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 as E sp #196 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = E mancum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 2001 drawing/photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 655 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 420 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 455 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 467 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 498 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 721 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 755 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 728 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 744 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 760 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 763 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 769 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 782 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 783 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 785 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 885 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section;Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1173 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1204 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1262 Hagsater 2009 Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1263 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1264 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1286 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1288 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as Epi sp photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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