Oerstedella caligaria (Rchb. f.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Verrucosum Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Booted Oerstedella [refers to the similarity between the deeply lacinate lateral lobes of the lip and a roman soldiers strapped footgear]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in central and western Panama in dry hot country on rock on stream banks as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyic species that occurs around 400 meters with a simple, cane-like, terete, thin straight stem carrying numerous, alternate, articulate, linear, recurved, narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, short, few to many flowered racemose to paniculate inflorescence with numerous, simultaneously opening flowers ..

Synonyms *Epidendrum caligarium Rchb. f. 1869

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 815 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum caligarium drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 860 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum caligarium; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 869 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum caligarium

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