Oerstedella pajitense (C.Schweinf.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Verrucosum Photo by © Patricia Harding

Common Name The Pajita Oerstedella [A hill in Panama]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in central Panama at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, simple, thin, terete, cane-like stems with most new stems arising from the middle of the previous, enveloped basally by non-foliaceous, tubular, verrucose sheaths and carrying 8 to 120, distributed throughout the apical half, alternate, articulate, lanceolate-oblong to lanceoalte-elliptci, obtuse to subacute, shortly bilobed, entire margined leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, terminal and lateral, apical is paniculate, lateral are racemose, thin, short rachis, terete, slightly flexuous lax, few flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, ovate-triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying 2 to 6 per branch or raceme, simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms *Epidendrum pajitense C.Schweinf. 1949

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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