Oestlundia ligulata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas

Oestlundia ligulata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas, Icon. Orchid. 10: t. 1057 (2008).

Oestlundia ligulata
Oestlundia ligulata
Oestlundia ligulata
Oestlundia ligulata
Oestlundia ligulata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas, Photos by Orquídeas silvestres de Valle de Bravo y colección privada.

Oestlundia ligulata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas, Video by Orquídeas silvestres de Valle de Bravo y colección privada. its native range is Central & SW. Mexico.

Latinh Name: 

Oestlundia ligulata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Encyclia tenuissima (Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf.) Dressler

Epidendrum ligulatum Lex.

Epidendrum llavei Steud.

Epidendrum tenuissimum Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf.

Oestlundia tenuissima (Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf.) W.E.Higgins

English Name:

The Spoon-Shaped Oestlundia.

Description: 

With ovoid to ovoid-spherical, clustered pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, linear, acute to obtuse leaves and blooms in the late winter through early summer on a simple to few branched, 2 to 12 flowered, 15 cm long inflorescence with nodding, showy flowers.

Distribution:

Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest.

Ecological:

At elevations of 1350 to 2100 m as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter through early summer .

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Type:

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