Oerstedella schumanniana (Schltr.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Wallisii Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name Schumann's Oerstedella [German Cactus Specialist early 20th cen]
Flower Size to about 1" [to about 2.5 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic herb found from 250 to l100 meters in lowland tropical rain forests that occurs in Costa Rica and Panama? with erect, cylyndric stems enveloped with verrucose leaf sheaths giving rise to coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, conduplicate at the base leaves and blooms on a terminal, simple to laxly branched, ridgidly erect, short to 2' [60 cm], few to many flowered inflorescence that has fragrant, long-lived flowers occuring in the winter and early spring.
Synonyms *Epidendrum schumannianum Schlechter 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 44. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum schummanianum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 127. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum schummanianum; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Epidendrum schumannianaum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum schumannianum; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 as Epidendrum schumannianum photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1463 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 876 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section as Epidendrum schumannianum; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 983 Hagsater 2007 as Epidendrum schumannianum drawing ok; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 as Epidendrum schumannianumphoto fide;
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