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Epidendrum cylindraceum

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Species of orchid

Epidendrum cylindraceum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Epidendrum
Subgenus: Epidendrum subg. Spathium
Species: E. cylindraceum
Binomial name
Epidendrum cylindraceum
Lindl.

Epidendrum cylindraceum is a reed-stemmed Epidendrum of the Orchidaceae, native to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, where it has been reported at an altitude of 3.2 km.

Description

Epidendrum cylindraceum stems are completely covered with tubular sheathes which bear one to two ovate-oblong leaves near the apex. The peduncle is clothed in two or three elongate herbaceous sheathes, arranged in a fan. The inflorescence is a dense raceme, up to 15 cm long by 5 cm in diameter. The rather small, non-resupinate, mostly white flowers have obovate acute sepals nearly 1 cm long that are rough on the outside, and linear petals. The deeply trilobate lip is adnate to the column to its apex: the small lateral lobes are sickle-shaped, with slight fringing on the proximal edge, and the much larger central lobe is kidney-shaped at its apex.

References

  1. H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES", nr. 177 in C. Müller, Ed. Walpers. Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(1861)363. Berlin.
  2. Schweinfurth "Orchids of Peru", Fieldiana: Botany 30(1959)430—431

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Taxon identifiers
Epidendrum cylindraceum
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