Epidendrum oerstedii Rchb.f 1852

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Common Name Oersted's Epidendrum [Danish Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

A large, erect, hot growing epiphytic plant from Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama with a creeping, terete rhizome carrying an erect, that has the upper 2 interenodes swollen and flattened to form a fusiform pseudobulb that can become shallowly grooved with age and carrying divergent, slightly recurved, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded or somewhat retuse apically, dark green leaves that flowers in the spring and early summer on an apical, short, 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence araing on a newly forming pseudobulb that has a basal green sheath and simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum costaricense Rchb.f 1852; Epidendrum umlauftii Zahlbr. 1893; Epidendrum cilare var oerstedii [Rchb.f] L.O.Wms 1946

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