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Plant Name: Epidendrum sympetalostele ‘Chapulin’ CBR/AOS 0 pts. Parentage: Speices
Description: Five flowers and one bud on three inflorescences on a four growth plant 19.5 cm tall and 24.6 cm wide grown in a 8.5 cm terracotta clay pot containing sphagnum moss; leaves 7.2 cm long x 4.5 cm wide, blue-green, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, retuse, distichously arranged, 3.0-cm by 2.3-cm petiole, becoming dry sheaths as leaves drop and age, wrapping around laterally compressed, flexuous, 15.0-cm stems; inflorescence 1.0 cm raceme, sequentially blooming, holding up to three flowers at a time; sepals and petals green-cream becoming light green distally; lip, proximally fused to 1.4-cm column, 1.5-cm long midlobe very broadly and deeply obcordate, each lobe strongly bilaterally reflexed forming a “V” shape, light green; column light green becoming darker green distally, anther cap white proximally, green with white spotting over the four pollinia; substance extremely firm; texture glossy; El Pangui, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador; SITF Confirmed as Epidendrum sympetalostele (Feb 2020); species known from Antioquia area of Colombia; agrees with the description and line drawing from "Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 2, Part 1, The Genus Epidendrum"; based on the distinctive stelida of the column and rolled margin form of the sepals; lip measurement is from flattened segments; . Exhibitor: Deborah Halliday | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 © Arthur Pinkers 2020 |