Oerstedella tetraceros (Rchb. f.) Hágsater 1981 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Andys Orchids

Plant ensitu in Costa Rica Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

to

Common Name The Four Waxy-Horned Oerstedella

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in wet montane forests on cliffs as a small to medium sized, cool to warm growing lithophyte at elevations of 1800 to 2400 meters with erect, thin, warty canes up to 3 ft. [90 cm] long, with short apical branches on mature canes carrying in the apical 1/2, narrow 2" leaves, producing new basal growths as well as many branching keikis which also flower. The 10 to 19 flowers appear simultaneously in each cluster arising at the tips of all the canes, with long-lasting, very beautiful, 1", flowers occuring in the summer.

Synonyms *Epidendrum tetraceros Rchb. f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 893 Hagsater 2006 only the drawing fide as Epidendrum tetraceros; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 as Epidendrum tetraceros photo fide;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------