Epidendrum cornutum
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Epidendrum anthoceros Lind. & Rchb.f. (1854) | |
Epidendrum cornutum is the accepted name[2] for a species of Epidendrum native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela at altitudes of 2.4–3 km.
The stem of this epiphyte is covered by close, tubular sheathes which bear bamboo-like (lnarrow, inear-lanceolate, very acute, with a cuniate sessile base) leaves on the upper part of the stem. The foot-long terminal inflorescence emerges from 1—3 large sheathes which completely cover the peduncle, and ends in a densely flowered raceme of fragrant, fleshy, flowers with filiform petals and a deeply three-lobed lip with slightly denticulate margins.[3] The flower color can be white, light yellow, light green, or tan.
Homonymy
The identity of this taxon has been confused by the publication, in 1894, of a description of Stanhopea oculata (first described in 1832) under the name Epidendrum cornutum.
References
- ^ Schweinfurth. "Orchids of Peru" Fieldiana: Botany 30(2) 1959. p. 425
- ^ http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=68178&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=68178&status=true
- ^ Lindley, J. Bot. (Hooker) 3:86 (1841)
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