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(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/16/2012)
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Species
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EPIDENDRUM CONDYLOCHILUM Lehm. & Kranzlin
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Jahrb. 26:459. 1899.
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Synonym
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Epidendrum tessellatum Batem. in Bot. Reg. 24: Misc. p. 7. 1838, non Roxb.; Hook. in Bot. Mag. 65: A\ 3638. 1838. Epidendrum Deamii Schltr. in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2:402. 1918; Ames, Hub. & Schweinf. Genus, Epidendrum in U. S. & Mid. Am. 88. 1936. Encyclia tessalata Schltr. loc. cit. 474, sphalm.
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Description
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Repent or caespitose epiphytic herbs up to about 4 dm. tall. Pseudobulbs 2-15 cm. long and 0.3-1.5 cm. in diameter, cylindric to usually fusiform or narrowly ovoid, bi- to trifoliate. Leaves 6-25 cm. long and 0.5-2.5 cm. broad, linear to elliptic, acute or obtuse, usually erect. Inflorescence usually shorter than the leaves, simple or rarely branched, few- to many-flowered. Flowers small, dull-colored, variable. Dorsal sepal 8-12 mm. long and 1.5-3 mm. broad, linear to linear- lanceolate, acute. Lateral sepals 8-13 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute. Petals 8-10 mm. long and 1.5-4 mm. broad, linear- oblanceolate to oblanceolate, obtuse. Lip 8-12 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, obovate, obovate-oblong to oval in general outline, distinctly 3-lobed to almost simple, free from the column, provided with a long low puberulent callus extend- ing from the base to about the middle of .the lip, and mammillate calluses from the middle toward the apex, these last often arranged in 3 rows; lateral lobes from very small to quite prominent and explanate, obtuse; mid-lobe with the margins undulate. Ovary winged.
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Distribution
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Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Colombia.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: "Chiriqui", alt. 1050-1450 m., Powell 93, 95, 3345, 3350, 3351, 3359.
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Note
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This species has gone under the name of Epidendrum Deamii Schltr. for -many years. It is perhaps not distinct from E. lividum Lindl., being separated by the presence of more or less distinct lateral lobes on the lip. The degree of lip loba- tion is of dubious value, for several specimens show almost entire lip, including typical material of E. condylochilum.
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