GROUP Megalospathum

Characterized by the caespitose but branching habit, many leafed stem, fleshy, oblique leaves a short few flowered racemose inflorescence subtended by a large semi-ovate spathe carrying a few resupinate flowers with the coulumn obliquely united to the lip, occasionally free.

  2. Epidendrum calacaliense Hágsater & Dodson 2001 Ecuador

  3. Epidendrum falsum Rchb.f

  4. Epidendrum megalospathum Rchb.f. 1877 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

  5. Epidendrum miradoranum Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989 Ecuador Peru

  6. Epidendrum molleturense Hagsater & Dodson 2004

  7. Epidendrum nigricans Schltr. 1913 Bolivia

  8. Epidendrum numbalense Hagsater & Dodson?

  9. Epidendrum platypetalum Hagsater 2001 Colombia

  10. Epidendrum posadarum Hágsater 2001 Colombia

  11. Epidendrum rhodochilum [Schlechter] Hagsater

  12. Epidendrum saccirhodochilum Hagsater & Santiago 2009 Ecuador

  13. Epidendrum stahlii Hagsater?

  14. Epidendrum tigriphyllum Hagsater 1999 Colombia

GROUP Megalospathum SUBGROUP Cupreum

  1. Epidendrum cupreum F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Ecuador

  2. Epidendrum kymatochilum Hágsater & Dodson 2004 Ecuador Peru

  3. Epidendrum orbiculatum C.Schweinf. 1943 Peru

GROUP Megalospathum SUBGROUP Inornatum

  1. Epidendrum calyptroides Hagsater & Dodson

  2. Epidendrum schmidtchenii Hagsater & Santiago 2009 Colombia

  3. Epidendrum varesachii Foldats Venezuela

GROUP Megalospathum SUBGROUP Minutidentatum

  1. Epidendrum minutidentatum C Schweinf. 1943 Peru

  2. Epidendrum sangayense Hagsater & Dodson 2006 Ecuador

GROUP Megalospathum SUBGROUP Obliquifolium

  1. Epidendrum obliquifolium Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1935 Costa Rica

  2. Epidendrum plagiophyllum Hagsater 1999 Panama

  3. Epidendrum vesicaule LO Williams

    References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 052 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 343 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 370 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 387 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section;Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 460 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 472 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 474 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 750 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 762 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 777 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 861 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1287 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1290 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 13 Plate 1364 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section

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