Oerstedella endresii (Rchb. f.) Hágsater 1981

SUBGROUP Verrucosum

Another Plant Photo by © Jay Pfahl.

Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica Photo by © Wilfried Löderbusch

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Common Name Endres' Oerstedella [German Orchid Collector-Central America 1800's]

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in windy, premontane and lower montane cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, terete, cylindric stems with black verrucose sheaths that reach about a foot [30 cm] and stiff, distichous, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or retuse leaves articulated to the basal leaf sheaths which blooms on a terminal, few flowered, racemose inflorescence subtended by elliptic-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous bracts and giving rise to relatively large, flat, fragrant flowers for the size of the plant occuring in the winter and spring.

Synonyms Epidendrum adolphii Schechter 1906; *Epidendrum endresii Rchb. f. 1883; Oerstedella adolphii (Schltr.) Brieger 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 as Epidendrum endresii; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrumn endresii; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 8 1980 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1459 Dodson 1992 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 880 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum endresii; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 931 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section as Epidendrum endresii; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 NO 8 2007 drawing as E pidendrum endresii; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 931 Hagsater 2007 as Epidendrum endresii drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1145 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section as Epidendrum exasperatum; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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