- Source: Epidendrum fimbriatum
Epidendrum fimbriatum is a terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) orchid native to high altitudes (2.2—3.4 km) in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Description
Epidendrum fimbriatum produces rather slender stems without any tendency to produce pseudobulbs covered from the base to the last regular leaf with close, tubular imbricating sheaths which, on the upper part of the stem, bear distichous leathery ovate-oblong retuse leaves, up to 66 mm long by 6 mm wide. The apical inflorescence emerges from the last regular leaf uncovered by either sheath or spathe and terminates (usually) in a single congested raceme with floral bracts that can grow to nearly 1 cm long. The fleshy non-resupinate flowers are white to light rose with purple spots. The lanceolate to elliptic oblong sepals grow to nearly 6 mm long; the narrower petals are somewhat shorter. The fimbriated, unlobed, somewhat pointed lip is adnate to the column to near its middle, as is more typical of the genus Prosthechea.
Homophony
Epidendrum fimbriatum Vell. (1831) nom. illeg. is a synonym for the different orchid, Laelia gloriosa (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams (1941).
References
External links
Several pictures may be found at
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
http://maqui.ucdavis.edu/Images/Orchids/epidendrum_fimbriatum.html
http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/poe2009flowers/large-31.html Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/POE2005/Fri/image023.htm Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
Images of herbarium specimens may be found at
http://orchid.unibas.ch/phpMyHerbarium/5137.3/1/Epidendrum/fimbriatum/Humboldt_Friedrich_Wilhelm_Heinrich_Ale_Bonpland_Aime_Jacques_Alexandre_Kunth_Karl_Sigismund/specimen.php
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar spesies Epidendrum
- Epidendrum fimbriatum
- List of Epidendrum species
- Epidendrum subsect. Racemosa
- List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
- List of IUCN Red List Vulnerable plants
