Oerstedella pansamalae (Schltr.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Aberrans Photo by © Sune Holt

Side view of Flowers Photo by © Sune Holt

Common Name The Pansamala Oerstedella [a town in Guatemala]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in elfin forests at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with non-branching, slender, erect canes completely enveloped by enveloped by scarious, tubular sheaths that become leaf-bearing in the apical 1/4 and carrya few, narrowly elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, fractiflex, several flowered, racemose inflorescence. Can be confused with O centradenia but differs in the unbranched growth habit and an entire midlobe [not bilobed] and the wider, obtuse lateral lobes

Synonyms Epidendrum dunnii A.D.Hawkes 1952; *Epidendrum pansamalae Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 893 Dodson, Hamer 1983 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 801 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 817 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 see recognition Section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 825 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 see recognition Section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 867 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 as Epidendrum pansamalae Drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 993 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 as Epidendrum pansamalae photo fide;

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