Epidendrum secundum Jacq. 1760
White form Photos courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Rose Colored Flower Form Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt plant grown by OrchidMania.
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Common Name All the Flowers In One Plane Epidendrum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil as a large sized, warm to cold growing, reed stem terrestrial occuring at elevations of 600 to3200 meters with erect, terete, laxly many leaved stems enveloped by tubular, scarious sheaths and carrying ovate-lanceolate, leathery, acute, basally clasping leaves where it blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, erect, long, simple to rarely branched, densly many flowered, umbelliform raceme with acuminate bracts arising on mature canes.
Synonyms Amphiglottis corymbosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Britton 1924; Amphiglottis lacera (Lindl.) Britton 1924; Amphiglottis secunda (Jacq.) Salisb. 1812; Amphiglottis secunda (Jacq.) Britton 1924; Epidendrum antioquiense Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum brachyphyllum Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum bulkeleyi A.D.Hawkes 1957; Epidendrum coroicoense Schltr. 1929; Epidendrum corymbosum Ruiz & Pav 1798; Epidendrum crassifolium Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum crassifolium var. albescens Pabst 1976; Epidendrum cuzcoense Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum dichotomum C. Presl. 1853; Epidendrum dolichopus Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum ellipticum Graham 1826; Epidendrum elongatum Jacq 1789; Epidendrum evectum Hook. f. 1871; Epidendrum expansum Rchb.f. 1877 ; Epidendrum fastigiatum Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3: 71 1853; Epidendrum fimbria Rchb.f. 1854; Epidendrum giroudianum Rchb. f. 1856; Epidendrum gracilicaule Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854; Epidendrum herzogii Schltr. 1913; Epidendrum incisum Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854; Epidendrum inconstans Ames ex Gleason 1931; Epidendrum juruaense Cogn. 1906; Epidendrum lacerum Lindley 1838; Epidendrum lindenii Lindl. 1845; Epidendrum longihastatum Barb.Rodr. 1877; Epidendrum novogranatense Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854; Epidendrum pachyphyllum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum polyschistum Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum secundum f. albescens (Pabst) F.Barros 2002; Epidendrum secundum var. albescens (Pabst) F.Barros 1996; Epidendrum sulfuratorium Krause 1914; Epidendrum tarmense Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum tricallosum Schltr. 1919; Epidendrum versicolor Hoehne & Schltr. 1926;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 096 Dodson 1980; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
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