Epidendrum paniculatum

Epidendrum paniculatum (gloss: paniculate upon a tree) is a species of orchid in the genus Epidendrum.

Epidendrum paniculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Epidendrum
Subgenus: Epidendrum subg. Epidendrum
Section: Epidendrum sect. Planifolia
Subsection: Epidendrum subsect. Paniculata
Species:
E. paniculatum
Binomial name
Epidendrum paniculatum
Synonyms
  • Epidendrum brachythyrsus Kraenzl. (1911)
  • Epidendrum cryptoglossum Pabst (1976
  • Epidendrum falsiloquum Rchb.f. (1885)
  • Epidendrum fastigiatum Lindl. (1853) nom. illeg.
  • Epidendrum floribundum Kunth (1816)
  • Epidendrum floribundum var. convexum Lindl. (1853)
  • Epidendrum frons-bovis Kraenzl. (1905)
  • Epidendrum laeve Lindl. (1844)
  • Epidendrum ornatum Lem. (1848)
  • Epidendrum paniculatum var. cuspidatum Lindl. (1853)
  • Epidendrum paniculatum var. longicrure Lindl. (1853)
  • Epidendrum reflexum Ames & C. Schweinf. (1925)
  • Epidendrum syringiiflorum Rchb.f. & Warsz. (1854)

Taxonomy

Reichenbach determined that E. fastigiatum Lindl. 1853,[1] E. floribundum Kunth 1816,[2] and E. paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. (1798),[3] including E. cuspidatum Lindl. (1853), E. laevi Lindl. (1844), and E. longicrure Lindl. (1853) were three separate species. Because E. fastigiatum Lindl. 1853 and E. paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. (1798) had the lower part of the inflorescences covered in imbricate sheathes, Reichenbach placed them in the section Amphiglotium Polycladia. Because E. floribundum Kunth 1816 had no imbricate sheaths on the lower part of the inflorescence, Reichenbach placed it in the subsection Euepidendrum Planifolia Paniculata.

According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families published by Kew,[4] E. fastigiatum Lindl. 1853 and E. floribundum Kunth 1816 are both synonyms for Epidendrum paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. (1798).

In 1984, the diploid chromosome number of an individual identified as E. floribundum Kunth was determined as 2n = 40.[5]

References
  1. H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES" in Dr. Carl Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(1861)376–37. Berlin. (as E. fastigiatum Lindl. 1853)
  2. H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES" in Dr. Carl Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(1861)413. Berlin. (as E. floribundum Kunth 1816)
  3. H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES" in Dr. Carl Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae 6(1861)376. Berlin. (as E. paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. (1798))
  4. "World Checklist of Selected Plant families". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  5. page 252 of Leonardo P. Felix and Marcelo Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234-278. The Linnean Society of London. downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/pdf
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