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Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni
This week I was looking to my epidendrum and I saw a lot of similarities with the one you showed a few weeks ago considered as a new specie found in Brazil. I would like to know your opinion about the pictures that I am enclosing with this note. Thanks a lot.
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Both flowers are similar yes. Petals and sepals are the same. At first sight the lip also looks similar, but actually there are a few morphological differences, especially in the relative sizes of the lip parts and also the precise point the three calluses are inserted relatively to the side lobes. Some of the differences are illustrated in the photo below. Of course this all can be nothing more than cosmetic differences a closer photo of your flowers would help a lot to clarify. Another point to clarify is whether your plant has or not adventitious roots.
I asked the authors of the species (through a common friend) the original publication to check out their explanations of the reasons to consider it new, besides the geographic isolation.
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