Epidendrum schizoclinandrium

This is a recent purchase (Redland 2016) from Orquideas Amazonica, and it is the first bloom at my place. I was looking for information about this species, but there isn't much. There are some confusing aspects of several related species, and I can't positively confirm the ID. But it does look similar to the photos of this species; e.g, Parsons and Gerritsen. 2013. A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Volume 1, and Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 Orchid Species of Peru. It's making only a couple flowers, but I decided to write down what I learned in my Orchid Borealis blog post (link).

Does anyone know a place where I can buy Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum (the original description of this species is in there)? In this web page, I can see contact info, and AOS bookstore is one of them. But I didn't find it listed in AOS.


Epidendrum schizoclinandrium on Flickr


Epidendrum schizoclinandrium column on Flickr


Epidendrum schizoclinandrium plant on Flickr

 

Thanks, Chris for the search!

Inter-library loan is a possibility, but I thought that it might be good to have if it is not too expensive.

Timothy, thank you for the link, I saw it, but I wanted to see the text side, too.

 

Thank you, Timothy and Kelly. I think Kelly was comparing plate 982 (E. schlechterianum) of "Icones Orchidacearum" Fascicle 9 (link) by Eric Hagster with E. schizoclinandrium of
"Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum" by Bennett and Christenson (Timothy's link). It is confusing! But you are right Hagster's illustration has serration. Does your have the serration? I have to take a closer look at this (and study Hagster's book). Between these two species, the column length seems to be quite different: long for E. schlecterianum, and short for E. schizoclinandrium. From the habitat, the former seems to be low elevation, warm grower, and the later seems to be high elevation cool grower. Are you growing yours warm, Kelly?

 

Thanks, Gregg. Somehow, both of them are plates 201-400. I'll keep looking.

Kelly, I dissected my flower and added a couple more photos to my blog. The inside of this flower is quite interesting. The column is fused with lip, and all parts are so succulent. It was pretty difficult to do it at home, so they aren't good photos.

Next time when yours flower, you should take a look at the column and sepal lengths (and maybe the pollinia shape). According to Hagster, what he considers as E. schlechterianum has much larger flower (sepal 18-20mm, column 10-14mm) than other related species. Mine is much smaller (column is 4mm). I just checked only the references which I can access now, but I wonder if yours is similar to E. gonzalez-tamayoi (fascicle 2, pl. 136). Yours have purple edged leaves, with the midrib sticking out quite a bit. Also, you can take a look at the shape of the side lobes of the column. When you trace from the "tip of the nose" toward the lip, yours seems to go down perpendicular to the column at first and then stretch parallel to the column. The illustration seems to show that in E. schlechterianum, the side lobe seems to stretch parallel to the column without going down perpendicular to the column. It is a bit difficult to describe in text, but you might want to take a look at the illustrations. Also the two illustrations show the difference in pollinium shape. You don't happen to know where yours are from, do you? Unfortunately, the locality info get lost most of the time in the orchid world.

 

Thank you all for helping me locate the book, and I found the complete set (800 plates) from Ingram's Better Orchid Books. In case others are looking for it.

 

Thank you, Kelly, for the update! I haven't made much progress in understanding this group (I haven't opened Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum alghtough I managed to get it). The columns is definitely longer, but don't you think that the flower size is about 1/2 of what it is supposed to be for E. schlechterianum (sepal 18-20mm)?