Epidendrum sect. Holochila

Epidendrum sect. Holochila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Genus: Epidendrum
Subgenus: E. subg. Amphiglottium
Section: E. sect. Holochila
Rchb.f.

Epidendrum sect.Holochila Rchb.f. 1861 is a section of subgenus Epidendrum subg.Amphiglottium of the Orchidaceae. It differs from section E. sect. Polycladia by bearing inflorescences that are racemes, not panicles.[1] It differs from section E. sect. Schistochila by having a lip with no lobes.[2] Like the other sections of E. subg.Amphiglottium, plants of E. sect.Holochila exhibit slender stems covered with close imbricating sheaths which do not swell to form pseudobulbs, and terminal inflorescences covered at the base with close imbricating sheaths but without spathes.

When he published the section, Reichenbach included fourteen species.[3] Kew[4] recognizes thirteen of these as separate species. (Page numbers refer to Reichenbach 1861).

E. hemiscleria subsp. hemiscleria
E. hemiscleria subsp. occidentalis

References

  1. "Flores racemosi (raro in paniculam racemosam luxuriantes.)", H. G. Reichenbach, "ORCHIDES" in C. Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae, Tomus VI p. 373, Berlin. 1861.
  2. "Labellum indivisum", H. G. Reichenbach, "ORCHIDES" in C. Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae, Tomus VI p. 373, Berlin. 1861.
  3. H. G. Reichenbach, "ORCHIDES" in C. Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae, Tomus VI pp. 380-384, Berlin. 1861.
  4. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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