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Epidendrum Subg. Spathium
John Lindley published ''Epidendrum'' subg. ''Spathium'' of the Orchidaceae. According to Lindley's diagnosis, the ''E''. subg. ''Spathium'' is recognizable by is sympodial habit with individual stems being slender (without any tendency to form pseudobulbs) and covered by the bases of the distichous leaves, by the labellum (botany), lip of the flower being adnate to the column to its apex, and by the inflorescence emerging from at least one spathe, similar to nearly all members of the genus ''Cattleya'' as understood in the year 2000 (''sensu MM''). Rchb.f., Reichenbach recognized 52 species in this subgenus, of which Kew accepts 48 (page numbers refer to Reichenbach 1861): * ''Epidendrum amplexicaule, E. amplexicaule'' Lindl. 1853 (p. 370) * ''Epidendrum acutissimum, E. acutissimum'' Lindl. 1853 (pp. 362–363) * ''Epidendrum adenoglossum, E. adenoglossum'' Lindl. 1841 (p. 361) * ''Epidendrum alpicolum, E. alpicolum'' Rchb.f. & War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindl
John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Armeniacum
''Epidendrum armeniacum'' (the "Apricot-coloured ''Epidendrum''") is an epiphytic species of reed-stemmed ''Epidendrum'' orchid that grows wild in Bolivia (including Cochabamba and La Paz), Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, at altitudes of 1–2 km. Description As is typical of ''E.'' subg. ''Spathium'', ''E. armeniacum'' exhibits a sympodial growth habit with the individual stems showing no tendency to swell into pseudobulbs, imbricating foliaceous sheathes covering the stem, an apical peduncle covered at its base by enlarged foliaceous spathes, and a lip adnate to the column to its apex. The closely spaced, slightly flattened stems bear distichous, narrow, lanceolate, slightly folded, leathery leaves which are darker above than below and pointed at the tip, up to 14 cm long by 1.6 cm wide. The drooping racemose inflorescence bears many small (4–5 mm across) apricot-colored flowers, H. G. Reichenbach "Orchides" item 193 in C. Müller, Ed. ''Walpers. Anna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Excisum
''Epidendrum excisum'' is a species of orchid known to grow both epiphytically and terrestrially on steep rocky banks in mountainous regions of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It has been reported at altitudes from 2.4 km to 2.8 km. Description The flattened stems grow to 0.9 m tall and are covered by the basal sheathes of the broad, oblong, leathery leaves. The long base of the paniculate inflorescence erupts from two short, broad spathes at the apex of the stem. The yellow flowers have filiform to linear petals, and obovate sepals, the lateral sepals being scoop-shaped. The lateral lobes of the trilobate lip have a crenulate to erose margin, and give the lip (where it diverges from the column) a heart-shape. The central lobe is divided into three short rounded lobes at its end: the central one narrow and bent downward, the lateral ones slightly longer, pointing outward and bent upward. Synonymy ''E. excisum'' var. ''grandiflorum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Discoidale
''Epidendrum'' , abbreviated Epi in the horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family. With more than 1,500 species, some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name (from Greek ''επί, epi'' and ''δένδρον, dendron'', "upon trees") refers to its epiphytic growth habit. When Carl Linnaeus named this genus in 1763, he included in this genus all the epiphytic orchids known to him. Although few of these orchids are still included in the genus ''Epidendrum'', some species of ''Epidendrum'' are nevertheless not epiphytic. Distribution and ecology They are native to the tropics and subtropical regions of the American continents, from North Carolina to Argentina. Their habitat can be epiphytic, terrestrial (such as '' E. fulgens''), or even lithophytic (growing on bare rock, such as '' E. calanthum'' and '' E. saxatile''). Many are grown in the Andes, at altitudes between 1,000 and 3,000 m. Their habitats include humid jungles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Cylindrostachys
''Epidendrum cylindrostachys'' is an epiphytic orchid native to the mountainous rainforest of Colombia and Peru, at altitudes near 2.5 km. According to the World Checklist, this binomial has no synonyms or homonyms. Description ''Epidendrum cylindrostachys'' is a reed-stemmed '' Epidendrum'' which H. G. Reichenbach placed in the subgenus ''E''. subg. ''Spathium'' because the terminal inflorescence erupts through two narrow, ancipitous spathes. H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES", nr. 186 in C. Müller, Ed. ''Walpers. Annales Botanices Systematicae'' 6(1861)365. Berlin. The closely spaced slender stems grow little more than 1 dm tall and are covered from the base by thin, imbricating sheaths. The top two or three of these sheaths bear linear-ligulate leaves which are longer than the stem. The inflorescence is a cylindric raceme bearing many small resupinate purple-spotted flowers subtended by very short linear-acute floral bracts. The oblanceolate-obl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Cylindraceum
''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.Schweinfurth "Orchids of Peru", ''Fieldiana: Botany'' 30(1959)430—431 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 A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hipólito Ruiz López
Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754 in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816 in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788. During the reign of Carlos III, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile. Background After studying Latin with an uncle who was a priest, at the age of 14 Ruiz López went to Madrid to study logic, physics, chemistry and pharmacology. He also studied botany at the Migas Calientes Botanical Gardens (now the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid), under the supervision of Casimiro Gómez Ortega (1741–1818) and Antonio Palau Verdera (1734–1793). Ruiz had not yet completed his pharmacology studies when he was named the head botanist of the expedition. The French physician Joseph Dombey was named as his assistant, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Cristatum
''Epidendrum cristatum''Ruiz & Pav. (1789) (the "comb ''Epidendrum''") is a species of orchid in the genus '' Epidendrum'' which is known to grow both terrestrially and epiphytically at altitudes near 1 km in the Neotropics from Mexico and Belize down through Brazil, as well as Trinidad. Description ''Epidendrum cristaum'' is an unusually large reed-stemmed ''Epidendrum'', growing up to 8 m tall. As with other members of the subgenus ''E''. subg. ''Spathium'', the stems of ''E. cristatum'' are un-swollen and covered by close, tubular sheathes which bear distichous, somewhat leathery, lanceolate leaves (up to 3 cm long by 4 cm wide) on the upper part of the stem. The terminal paniculate inflorescence grows through several enlarged spathes, arranged in a fan, which cover the peduncle. The yellow-green flowers often have purple-brown markings. The oblong convex obtuse sepals can grow up to 2.8 cm long, slightly longer than the linea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Cornutum
''Epidendrum cornutum'' is the accepted name 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, linear-lanceolate, very acute, with a cuneate 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.Lindley, ''J. Bot. (Hooker)'' 3:86 (1841) 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 ''Stanhopea oculata'' is a species of orchid occurring from Mexico to Colombia and southeastern Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Cnemidophorum
''Epidendrum'' , abbreviated Epi in the horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family. With more than 1,500 species, some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name (from Greek ''επί, epi'' and ''δένδρον, dendron'', "upon trees") refers to its epiphytic growth habit. When Carl Linnaeus named this genus in 1763, he included in this genus all the epiphytic orchids known to him. Although few of these orchids are still included in the genus ''Epidendrum'', some species of ''Epidendrum'' are nevertheless not epiphytic. Distribution and ecology They are native to the tropics and subtropical regions of the American continents, from North Carolina to Argentina. Their habitat can be epiphytic, terrestrial (such as '' E. fulgens''), or even lithophytic (growing on bare rock, such as '' E. calanthum'' and '' E. saxatile''). Many are grown in the Andes, at altitudes between 1,000 and 3,000 m. Their habitats include humid jungles, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bateman (horticulturist)
James Bateman (18 July 1811 – 27 November 1897) was a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall in Staffordshire, England. He created the famous gardens at Biddulph with the aid of his wife Maria and his friend and painter of seascapes Edward William Cooke. From 1865–70 he was the founding president of the North Staffordshire Field Club, the large local club which to this day researches local natural history and folklore. Biography He was born at Redvales near Bury in Lancashire, he matriculated with Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1829, graduating from Magdalen College with a BA in 1834 and an MA in 1845. Over the twenty years he made a great deal of money in iron, engineering and banking. In 1861, Bateman and his notable sons (who included the painter Robert Bateman) gave up the house and gardens at Biddulph, and he moved to Kensington in London. He later moved to Worthing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidendrum Clowesi
''Epidendrum'' , abbreviated Epi in the horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family. With more than 1,500 species, some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name (from Greek ''επί, epi'' and ''δένδρον, dendron'', "upon trees") refers to its epiphytic growth habit. When Carl Linnaeus named this genus in 1763, he included in this genus all the epiphytic orchids known to him. Although few of these orchids are still included in the genus ''Epidendrum'', some species of ''Epidendrum'' are nevertheless not epiphytic. Distribution and ecology They are native to the tropics and subtropical regions of the American continents, from North Carolina to Argentina. Their habitat can be epiphytic, terrestrial (such as '' E. fulgens''), or even lithophytic (growing on bare rock, such as '' E. calanthum'' and '' E. saxatile''). Many are grown in the Andes, at altitudes between 1,000 and 3,000 m. Their habitats include humid ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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