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Orchid Species: Epidendrum costaricense

Kew currently accepted name is Epidendrum oerstedii

Epidendrum costaricense is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1852. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum oerstedii.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
costaricense
(traditional Sander nomenclature)
Parents
Species
Author
Rchb.f.
Year
1852
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ORIGIN: A small sized, erect, warm to cool growing epiphytic plant from Costa Rica and Panama in high canopy deciduous forests at elevations around 800 to 1150 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small sized, erect, warm to cool growing epiphytic plant from Costa Rica and Panama in high canopy deciduous forests at elevations around 800 to 1150 meters with a creeping, terete rhizome carrying an erect, that has the upper 2 interenodes swollen and flattened to form a fusiform pseudobulb with scarious, imbricate, acuminate, evanescent sheaths in youth that can become shallowly grooved with age and carrying divergent, slightly recurved, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded or somewhat retuse apically, dark green leaves that flowers in the spring through summer on an apical, short to 4.8 [12 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly forming pseudobulb that has a basal green sheath and simultaneously opening flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Epidendrum Epi oerstedii 1852 Rchb.f.
Add+ Coilostylis Coil oerstedii 2004 (Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding
Add+ Epidendrum Epi umlaufti 1893 Zahlbr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Epi. oerstedii 'Carlos Robles' (2010) Epi. oerstedii 'Juan Aragon' (2009) Epi. oerstedii 'Benttree' (2006) Epi. oerstedii 'Karl Siegler' (2002)
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