''Epidendrum cylindraceum'' is a reed-stemmed ''
Epidendrum'' of the
Orchidaceae, native to
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
,
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 Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
is clothed in two or three elongate herbaceous sheathes, arranged in a fan. The inflorescence is a dense
raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
, 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 words, a column is a compression member. ...
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
External links
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia* http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchidtalk/orchid-shows-society-meetings/16433-fascination-orchids-show-photos.html
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cylindraceum
Orchids of Colombia
Orchids of Ecuador
Orchids of Peru