Oerstedella thurstonorum Dodson & Hágsater 1988. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

EARLY

Flower Size Thurston's Oerstedella

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Bolivia on steep slopes in subtropical humid forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a giant sized warm to cool growing terrestrial with cane-like stems enveloped completely by dry, verrucose, dark red brown, tubular sheaths and carrying distichous, coriaceous, spreading, ovate, green with red spots on the upper surface, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal or lateral, racemose t opaniculate, 5 to 11 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 1 to 2, inflated, bracts

Synonyms Epidendrum cuneatum Schltr.1912; Oerstedella vasquezii Dodson 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 563 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 as Oersedella vasquezii drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide

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