GROUP Cristatum SUBGROUP Cristatum

characterized by the sympodial, caespitose habit, many-leaved stems, apical racemose inflorescence with several large, imbricating bracts, and producing successive racemes over the years from the peduncle,

  1. Epidendrum criniferum Rchb. f. 1871 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  2. Epidendrum cristatum Ruiz and Pavon 1798 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Trinidad

  3. Epidendrum oreonastes Rchb.f. 1878 Bolivia

  4. Epidendrum raniferum Lindl. 1831 Mexico Costa Rica

  5. Epidendrum rivulare Lindl. 1858 Cuba, Dominican Republic Jamaica

  6. Epidendrum septipartitum Hágsater, Dalström & Ruíz Pérez 2013 Peru

  7. Epidendrum warrasii Pabst 1971 Brazil

GROUP Cristatum SUBGROUP Cnemidophorum

Characterized by the pink-purple or yellow to yellowish green flowers, the lip with the margin of the lateral lobes entire.

  1. Epidendrum cnemidophorum Lindl. 1853 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica

  2. Epidendrum exaltatum Kraenzl. 1916 Peru

  3. Epidendrum gloria-imperatrix Hágsater & G.Calat. 2007 Peru

  4. Epidendrum gualaquicense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  5. Epidendrum oraion Hagsater 1993 Colombia

  6. Epidendrum pfavii Rolfe 1894 Costa Rica

  7. Epidendrum quinquepartitum Schltr. 1922 Bolivia

  8. Epidendrum tziscaoense Hágsater 1999 Mexico

  9. Epidendrum youngii Hágsater & E.Santiago 2013 Peru

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 077 Dodson 1980 see Observation section; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1216 Hamer 1985 see Observation section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarun Plate 044 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 713 Dodson 1982 see Observation section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 166 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 391 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 442 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 940 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1114 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1115 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1157 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1322 Hagsater & Santiago 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1485 Hagsater & Sanchez 2013 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1498 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section;

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