Oerstedella medinae (Dodson) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Wallisii Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Medina's Oerstedella [Ecuadorian co-discoverer of species]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador in very wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 1100 meters as a large to giant sized, warm growing epiphyte with cane-like, erect stems enveloped completely by dry, verrucose, tubular sheaths with the uppermost being leaf bearing and carrying disiticholus, erect-spreading, elliptical, acute, coriaceous leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal and lateral opposite the leaves, racemose, 1.2" [3 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Epidendrum medinae Dodson 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 88 1980 drawing as Epidendrum medinae drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 929 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 958 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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