GROUP Alpicolum

Characterized by the simple, cane-like stems, narrowly elliptic acute leaves, long, narrow, 1 to 2 spathaceous bracts giving rise to a foxtail-like inflorescence with small flowers with a lip that is fleshy, prominently midveined when dry, a triangular midlobe and large orbicular lateral lobes that are larger in surface area than the midlobe, also with a prominent, emarginate, entire clinandrum

  1. Epidendrum acuminatum Ruiz & Pav. 1798 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  2. Epidendrum aenigmaticum Hágsater & Dodson 2007 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum alopecurum Schlechter 1929 Bolivia

  4. Epidendrum alpicola Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  5. Epidendrum alpicolonigrense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum anthoceroides Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  7. Epidendrum anthoceros Linden & Rchb.f. 1854 Ecuador Peru

  8. Epidendrum arcuiflorum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 Costa Rica Panama

  9. Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. 1836 Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia

  10. Epidendrum boscoense Hagsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  11. Epidendrum charpinii Hagsater & Santiago 2010 Venezuela

  12. Epidendrum cornutum Lindl.1841 Ecuador Peru

  13. Epidendrum falcisepalum Lehm & Kranzel 1899 Ecuador

  14. Epidendrum morilloi Hagsater & Santiago 2010 Venezuela

  15. Epidendrum oblongialpicola Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  16. Epidendrum popayanense F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Colombia

  17. Epidendrum powellii Schltr. 1922 Costa Rica Panama

  18. Epidendrum pucunoense Hagsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  19. Epidendrum sisgaense Hágsater 2001 Colombia Venezuela

  20. Epidendrum tequendamae F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Colombia

  21. Epidendrum zosterifolium F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Ecuador

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Dialychilum

  1. Epidendrum dialychilum Hágsater & Dodson 1993 Ecuador and Peru

  2. Epidendrum dialyrhombicum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum pterostele Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  4. Epidendrum rhopalostele Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Peru

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Klotzscheanum

  1. Epidendrum alpicoloscandens Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum ampelospathum Hágsater & Dodson 2004 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum ampliracemum C.Schweinf. 1952 Peru

  4. Epidendrum klotzscheanum Rchb.f. 1850 Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil

  5. Epidendrum melanoxeros Hágsater & Dodson 1999 Colombia Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum ochriodes Lindl. 1853 Ecuador

  7. Epidendrum prasinum Schltr. 1920 Colombia Ecuador

GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Pergracile

  1. Epidendrum campii Hagsater & Dodson 2004 Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum cyclotylosum Hagsater 2004 Peru

  3. Epidendrum gracilibracteatum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  4. Epidendrum pergracile Schlechter 1921 Ecuador

  5. Epidendrum rhodoides Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  6. Epidendrum sulcatum Ames 1922 Colombia Peru

  7. Epidendrum vidal-senegei Hágsater 1999 Ecuador

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 444 Bennett & Christenson 1998;Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 451 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 636 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 128 Hagsater & Salazar 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 396 Hagsater & Salazar 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 406 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 407 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 411 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 419 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 440 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 465 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 475 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 476 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 480 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 481 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 703 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 730 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 804 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 874 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 902 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 1103 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 1163 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 1199 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1314 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1359 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section;