Palm

GROUP Coilostylis

Characterized by the sympodial, caespitose plants, the stems forming a fusiform, pseudobulb, with an apical, racemose, distichous inflorescence, the peduncle covered by large bracts (but not spathaceous bracts), and flowers large, star-shaped, with long, narrow sepals and petals.

  1. Epidendrum apuahuense Mansf. 1930 Venezuela and Brazil

  2. Epidendrum ciliare L. 1759 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

  3. Epidendrum cilioccidentale Hágsater & L.Sánchez 2008 Mexico

  4. Epidendrum × doroteae P.H.Allen 1958 Honduras

  5. Epidendrum foulquieri Chiron 2005 Fr Guiana and northern Brazil

  6. Epidendrum hurtadoi Hágsater, Uribe Vélez & De Arcos 2020 Colombia

  7. Epidendrum megalemmum Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2008Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Antigua, Guadeloupe and Martinique, northern Colombia, Venezuela and neighboring Guyana

  8. Epidendrum oerstedii Rchb.f. 1852 Costa Rica and Panama

  9. Epidendrum pugioniforme Regel 1890 Mexico

  10. Epidendrum purpurascens Focke 1851 Costa Rica, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil

  11. Epidendrum sandiorum (Hágsater, Karremans & L.Sánchez) Hágsater, Karremans et L.Sánchez 2013 Costa Rica

  12. Epidendrum volutum Lindl. & Paxton 1851-52 Costa Rica Panama

  13. Epidendrum viviparum Lindley 1841 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and the Guianas
GROUP Coilostylis SUBGROUP Falcatum

Characterized by the pendent, sympodial, caespitose habit, roots only at the base of the first stems, a single, fleshy, succulent, lanceolate leaf, the large, star-shaped flowers, and the deeply 3-lobed lip.

  1. Epidendrum falcatum Lindl. 1840 Mexico

  2. Epidendrum ixilum Hágsater, Archila & Chiron 2015 Guatemala

  3. Epidendrum lacertinum Lindl. 1841 Mexico, Guatemala

  4. Epidendrum parkinsonianum Hooker 1840 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1110 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1119 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1151 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1168 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1198 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1317 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1337 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 as Group falcatum See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1368 Hagsater & Dodson 2010 as Group falcatum See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1483 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1523 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1529 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1617 Hagsater & Santiago 2018 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1641 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1704 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1772 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section

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