GROUP Rupestre

Characterized by the caespitose, sympodial habit , the pseudobulbous stems carrying 1 to 4 fully developed apical, leaves, no spathes at the base of the erect, racmose to paniculate inflorescence and an ecallose lip with several fleshy, thickened keels on the disc

  1. Epidendrum excelsum C.Schweinf. 1970 Peru

  2. Epidendrum megalocoleum Hagsater 2007 Peru

  3. Epidendrum pachydiscum Hagsater 2004 Peru

  4. Epidendrum rupestre Lindl. 1841 Ecuador Peru

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 773 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 956 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007;

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