Oerstedella pseudoschumanniana (Fowlie) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Wallisii

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Common Name The False Oerstedella schumanniana

Flower Size

Found in central Panama, in warm humid jungle on very tall trees, at elevations of 450 to 1100 meters and is a medium to giant sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, erect stems enveloped basally by tubular, purple-gray warty, leafless sheaths and carrying in the apical half, alternate, articulate, narrowly oblong-elliptic to ovate, obtuse, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on apical to lateral, racemose or paniculate, erect, laxly many flowered inflorescence carrying showy, simultaneous, fragrant flowers .

Synonyms *Epidendrum pseudoschumannianum Fowlie 1969

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 as Epidendrum pseudo-schumanianum photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 871 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as E pseudoshumanianum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 887 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum pseudoschumannianum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 876 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum pseudoschumannianum drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 983 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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