Epidendrum noctirufescens Hágsater & Cadena
, Icon. Orchid. 19(3): t. 1987 (2023).
External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77325151-1
- Publication
- Icones Orchidacearum. Mexico City
- Collation
- 19(3): t. 1987
- Date of Publication
- 6 Jun 2023
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Milton Rincón González y Daniel Eduardo Cadena Barbosa 1859
- Locality
- Santander: Jesus María: Laderas, El Hogar, Alto de La Gloria, en bosque primario, 2110 m
- Collection Date
- 3 Jul 2021
- Type Herbaria
- holotype JBB
- Distribution Of Types
- Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
Etymology: name from the Latin 'nocturnus', belonging to the night, and 'rufescens', a mixture of red and brown, closer to red, in reference to the color into which the flowers turn when fertilized or wilting, which distinguishes this species from most others in the Nocturnum Group.