Epidendrum lanipes Lindl. (1853) is an epiphytic sympodial

Sympodial

Sympodial means "with conjoined feet", and in biology is often used to refer to the outward morphology or mode of growth of organisms.-In botany:...

 orchid

Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

 with spindle-shaped stems native to the montane tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforest

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 of Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Colombia

Colombia

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, and Peru

Peru

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 at altitudes ranging from 0.8 to 1.4 km.

Description

E. lanipes has been placed in E. subg. Epidendrum

Epidendrum subg. Epidendrum

The subgenus Epidendrum subg. Epidendrum was published as "Euepidendrum" in 1841 with the diagnosis "Caulis foliosus. Pedunculus brevis esquamatus...

 because of its rather slender, multifoliate, only slightly swollen stems, and because the terminal inflorescence has neither sheath nor spathe at its base. The flat leaves are variable: sword-shaped, tongue-shaped, narrowly eliptical, or oblong-lanceolate; they may or not be noticeably bilobed at the end. The 20 cm long paniculate inflorescence bears relatively widely separated branches, each a densely-flowered 10 cm raceme. The white flower has a wooly ovary, linear-oblong sepals, slightly longer mucronate lateral sepals, filiform to linear-oblanceolate petals, and a citrus-like scent. The strongly trilobate lip

Labellum

Labellum is the Latin diminutive of labium, meaning lip. These are anatomical terms used descriptively in biology, for example in Entomology and botany.-Botany:...

 is adnate to the column

Column (botany)

The column, or technically the gynostemium, is a reproductive structure that can be found in several plant families: Aristolochiaceae, Orchidaceae, and Stylidiaceae....

 to its apex. The lateral lobes are semi-ovate and acute, the central lobe is contracted in the middle, with three rounded points at the end. The callus is also trilobate.

The diploid chromosome

Chromosome

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number of E. lanipes has been determined as 2n = 40.

External links

• http://www.orchidspecies.com/epilanipes.htm
• https://lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/item.php?kind=flask&id=TN5491
• http://orchids.la.coocan.jp/Epidendrum/Epidendrum%20lanipes/Epidendrum%20lanipes.htm