Epidendrum turialvae Rchb.f. 1871 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Turialvae

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TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website

Common Name or Meaning The Turrialba Epidendrum [A Volcano in Costa Rica]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, rigid, cane-like stems carrying in the apical half, narrow, lanceolate, long-acuminate leaves and blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, long-peduculate, 1 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence that can rebloom over several seasons from a different node and has simultaneously opening flowers.

"Epidendrum turialvae is party of GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Turialvae characterized by a racemose and few-flowered inflorescence on an elongate peduncle, usually producing new racemes over the years and thus pluriracemose. The species is recognized by the linear-Ianceolate, long acuminate leaves tinged purple on the underside, the elongate, few-flowered, subcorymbose inflorescence, the flowers greenish with the lip a transparent white, sometimes with a purple blotch over the disc. Epidendrum antonense Hágsater from central Panama is vegetatively very similar, but the flowers are olive-green with the smaller, very fleshy lip intense, solid purple. Epidendrum tacarcunense Hágsater from the Darién has much larger plants up to 4'4" [130 cm] tall, with acuminate, .28 to .64" [7 to 16 mm] long floral bracts and the petals parallel to the column not reflexed." Hagsater etal 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Gard. Chron. 1871: 1678. 1871; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 42. Panama Schlechter 1922 mis-spelled as E turialbae; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 129. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 742 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 108 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 181 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 196 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 307 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 384 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 398 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 446 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Manual de las Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1131 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1193 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1427 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1463 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1567 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section;

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