Oerstedella pentadactyla (Rchb.f.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Verrucosum Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Plant and Inflorescence Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
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Common Name The 5 Fingered Oerstedella
Flower Size .15" to .2" [3.5 to 5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica recently in Chiapas Mexico at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters in wet/dry montane forests as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, cane-like, terete, very thin, apically branching, branches erect but shorter, stems enveloped basally by tubular purple spotted non-leafed sheaths and carrying 5 to 8, all along the apical half of the stems, deciduous, alternate, articulate, linear-lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, entire margined leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on an erect, terminal, sessile, racemose, densely many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovaries, heliconically arranged on the rachis, triangular-ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying 10 to 27, successive, 2 to 5 at any one time, somewhat fragrant flowers.
Synonyms *Epidendrum pentadactylum Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum pentdactylum; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum pentadactyla drawing; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 41. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum pentdactylum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 123. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum pentdactylum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 1216. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum pentdactylum; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 1 1977 as Epidendrum pentdactylum; ICones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1461 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 869 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 as Epidendrum pentdactylon drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 as Epidendrum pentdactylum photo fide;
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