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Oerstedella adolphii is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter in 1977. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum endresii.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Panama in windy, premontane and lower montane cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, terete, cylindric stems with black verrucose sheaths that reach about a foot [30 cm] and stiff, distichous, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or retuse leaves articulated to the basal leaf sheaths which blooms on a terminal, few flowered, racemose inflorescence subtended by elliptic-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous bracts and giving rise to relatively large for the size of the plant, flat, fragrant flowers occurring in the winter and spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/5 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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