Epidendrum carpishense Hágsater, D.Trujillo

Quispe-Melgar, Harold Rusbelth, Llacua-Tineo, Elizabeth Santiago Ayala Yashira Stefani & Hágsater, Eric, 2023, Synopsis of the Peruvian species of Epidendrum (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae) belonging to the Scabrum group, subgroup Soratae: diversity and description of a new species, Phytotaxa 603 (1), pp. 1-26 : 10

3. Epidendrum carpishense Hágsater, D.Trujillo & E. Santiago, (2009: t. 1215). ( Figure 4C ).

Type:— PERU. Huánuco: Cumbre Carpish , 2183 m, 25 December 2002, D. Trujillo 78 (holotype: HURP!)

Distribution:— Peru, currently known only for the department of Huánuco.

Notes:— Epidendrum carpishense is morphologically similar to E. obliquum , but is distinguished by having nonresupinate flowers, 3–4 (vs. resupinate, 4–6), the lip with a truncated apex with an irregular margin, 3.5 × 5.5 mm (vs. apex emarginate, 4.6 × 8 mm), the column arched, constricted in the middle, 4.5 mm long (vs. thin, straight, 7 mm long), and the ovary strongly inflated ventrally from the middle of the column to behind the perianth, 15 mm long (vs. somewhat inflated 10–15 mm long).

Conservation Status:— DD. Data deficient.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Species of the Soratae subgroup of the genus Epidendrum present in Peru. Illustrations by: R. Jiménez M. (A, B, D, E). D. Trujillo (C). M. López R. (F).