Oerstedella pinnifera (C.Schweinf.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Wallisii Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Fin-Like Oerstedella

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte withelongate, simple, terete, erect stems enveloped in the lower part by strongly verrucose, non-foliaceous, tubular sheaths and carrying numerous, on the upper 2/3 of the stem, alternate, articulate, elliptic, acute, minutely apiculate, subcoriaceous leaves that blokms in the spring on an apical and lateral near the apex, racemose, laxly few flowered, terete, thin inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acute floral bracts that are much shorter than the ovaries.

Synonyms *Epidendrum pinniferum C.Schweinf. 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1567 Mora & Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 plate 871 Hagsater 2006 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 plate 887 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum pinniferum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 plate 887 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum pinniferum; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 as Epidendrum pinniferum photo fide;

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