Oerstedella verrucosa (Sw.) Hágsater 1981 SUBGROUP Verrucosum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Warty Oerstedella [refers to the warty sheaths on the stem]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found from southern Mexico south to Nicaragua as well as Cuba and Jammaica in lower montane rainforests at elevations of 600 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with rigid, siple, cane-like, terete stems enveloped by warty, leafless sheaths below and carrying on the apical half, distichous, articulate, erect-spreading, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a terminal, paniculate, rarely racemose, erect, slightly flexuous rachis, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, gradually shorter floral bracts and carrying 20 to 50 simultaneous opening flowers.

Synonyms Amphiglottis verrucosa (Sw.) Acuña 1939; *Epidendrum verrucosum Sw. 1806; Epidendrum verrucosum var. hansenii C.D.Adams 1966; Oerstedella hansenii (C.D.Adams) Nir 2000; Oerstedella verrucosa var. hansenii (C.D.Adams) Nir 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum verrucosum; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum verrucosum drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum verrucosum; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum verrucosum drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 894 Dodson 1983 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 856 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum verrucosum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 866 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section as Epidendrum verrucosum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 897 Hagsater 2006 as Epidendrum verrucosum drawing fide

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