Epidendrum acrolithophilum Hágsater & E.Santiago
, Icon. Orchid. 17(1): t. 1701 (2019).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77204098-1
- Publication
- Icones Orchidacearum. Mexico City
- Collation
- 17(1): t. 1701
- Date of Publication
- 21 Oct 2019
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Eric Hágsater & Elizabeth Santiago Ayala 16048
- Locality
- Ecuador: Loja, Cantón Saraguro, Parroquia Manú, cerca del refugio de Cerro de Arcos, 3538 m
- Collection Date
- 22 Oct 2018
- Type Herbaria
- holotype QCNE
isotype AMO
isotype MEXU - Distribution Of Types
- Ecuador (Western South America, Southern America)
Peru (Western South America, Southern America)
Remarks
The specific epithet is from the Greek, ακρος summit, λιθος stone, and φιλο- loving, in reference to the ecological adaptation of this species.