Epidendrum radicans Pav. ex Lindl.
First published in Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 104 (1831)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Colombia. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is has environmental uses and as a medicine.
Distribution
Native to:
Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela
Introduced into:
Cuba, Puerto Rico
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Epidendrum pratense Rchb.f. in Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 84 (1866)
- Epidendrum radicans var. chiriquense Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 39 (1922)
- Epidendrum rhizophorum Bateman ex Lindl. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 8 (1838)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
- Kolanowska, M., Hágsater, E., Szlachetko, D.L., Santiago Aala, E. & Sánchez, Saldaña, L. (2014). Orchids of the department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia) 2: 1-393. Koeltz Scientific Books.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Kew Species Profiles
- Bierzychudek, P. (1981). Asclepias, Lantana and Epidendrum: a floral mimicry complex? Biotropica 13: 54–58.
- Hagsater, E. et al. (2005). Orchids of Mexico. Instituto Chinoin, Mexico City.
- United States Department of Agriculture GRIN (2012). Epidendrum radicans.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Aug 13, 2005 | n/a | K001444841 | Yes | ||
Aug 13, 2005 | n/a | K001444842 | Yes | ||
18391.000 | No | ||||
Burns, M., Congo, DRC | 20217.000 | No | |||
Hartweg [s.n.], Mexico | K000079630 | Yes | |||
Bateman [s.n.], Mexico | K000079631 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K000079632 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | 78137.000 | No | |||
n/a | K001444838 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444839 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444840 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444843 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444844 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444845 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444846 | Yes | |||
Colombia | K001444847 | Yes | |||
Colombia | K001444848 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444849 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444850 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444851 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444852 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444853 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444854 | Yes | |||
n/a | K001444855 | Yes |
Sources
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
- ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Kew Species Profiles
- Kew Species Profiles
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0