Epidendrum adenoglossum

Epidendrum adenoglossum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Epidendrum
Subgenus: Epidendrum subg. Spathium
Species:
E. adenoglossum
Binomial name
Epidendrum adenoglossum
Lindl. (1841)

Epidendrum adenoglossum is an orchid known primarily from its type herbarium specimen, Mathews 1073, collected in Peru near Pangoa. When Lindley published the name, he placed the species in the subgenus E. subg. Spathium Lindl. (1841). In 2005, Hágsater & Soto designated this species as the lectotype of E. subg. Spathium Lindl. (1841).

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