''Epidendrum paniculatum'' (gloss: paniculate upon a tree) is a species of
orchid in the genus ''
Epidendrum''.
Taxonomy
Reichenbach Reichenbach may refer to:
Places Austria
* Reichenbach (Litschau), a part of Litschau
* Reichenbach (Rappottenstein), a part of Rappottenstein
Germany
* Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), in Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis district, Saxony
* Rei ...
determined that ''E. fastigiatum''
Lindl. 1853, ''E. floribundum''
Kunth 1816, and ''E. paniculatum''
Ruiz The Spanish surname Ruiz originates from the Germanic personal name " Hrodric" which is composed of the elements "Hrōd", meaning "renown", and "rīc", meaning "power(ful)", thus "famous ruler". Ruiz is a patronymic from the personal name Ruy, a sh ...
& Pav. (1798), 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 The Spanish surname Ruiz originates from the Germanic personal name " Hrodric" which is composed of the elements "Hrōd", meaning "renown", and "rīc", meaning "power(ful)", thus "famous ruler". Ruiz is a patronymic from the personal name Ruy, a sh ...
& Pav. (1798) had the lower part of the inflorescences covered in imbricate sheathes,
Reichenbach Reichenbach may refer to:
Places Austria
* Reichenbach (Litschau), a part of Litschau
* Reichenbach (Rappottenstein), a part of Rappottenstein
Germany
* Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), in Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis district, Saxony
* Rei ...
placed them in the section ''Amphiglotium Polycladia''. Because ''E. floribundum''
Kunth 1816 had no imbricate sheaths on the lower part of the inflorescence,
Reichenbach Reichenbach may refer to:
Places Austria
* Reichenbach (Litschau), a part of Litschau
* Reichenbach (Rappottenstein), a part of Rappottenstein
Germany
* Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), in Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis district, Saxony
* Rei ...
placed it in the subsection ''Euepidendrum Planifolia Paniculata''.
According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families published by Kew,
''E. fastigiatum''
Lindl. 1853 and ''E. floribundum''
Kunth 1816 are both synonyms for ''Epidendrum paniculatum''
Ruiz The Spanish surname Ruiz originates from the Germanic personal name " Hrodric" which is composed of the elements "Hrōd", meaning "renown", and "rīc", meaning "power(ful)", thus "famous ruler". Ruiz is a patronymic from the personal name Ruy, a sh ...
& Pav. (1798).
In 1984, the
diploid
Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Sets of chromosomes refer to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, respectively ...
chromosome number of an individual identified as ''E. floribundum''
Kunth was determined as 2''n'' = 40.
[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]
References
Epidendrum subsect. Paniculata
Epidendrum sect. Polycladia
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
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