Oestlundia luteorosea (A. Rich. & Galeotti) W.E. Higgins 2001
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © Robert Weyman Bussey
Drawing by © Eric Hagsater
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Common Name The Yellow-Pink Oestlundia
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found from Vera Cruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas states of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Santander department of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte that occurs at altitudes between 50 and 2000 meters in wet montane forests with pale green, smooth, ovoid tapering to a point pseudobulbs enveloped by persistent leaf sheaths carrying to 4, linear, acute, coriaceous, conduplicate at the base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter, on an apical, erect, arising on a mature, ovoid tapering to a point pseudobulb subtended by several, acuminate bracts, that is shorter or just longer than the leaves, 3.2" to 18" [8 to 45 cm] long, few-branched, loosely few flowered inflorescence with small, nodding flowers .
Oestlundia luteorosea is recognized from other species of the genus by the combination of, several noded pseudobulbs, much branched, multiflorous inflorescence, a whitish lip suffused with pink-purple, strongly adnate to the column and with fleshy, warty keels, spatulate petals and yellowish green tepals blotched apically with brown. Flower size is quite variable." Hagsater & Soto 2008
Synonyms Encyclia linearis Dressler 1961; Encyclia luteo-rosea (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971; Epidendrum lineare Ruiz & Pav. 1798; *Epidendrum luteo-roseum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Epidendrum seriatum Lindl. 1853
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.: 249 Ruiz & Pavon 1798 as Epidendrum linearum nom. illeg.
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 19 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum luteoroseum;
Fol. Orchid. 3: 59 Lindley 1853 as Epidendrum seriatum;
Bonplandia Vol 2 Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum luteoroseum;
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Epidendrum seriatum
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Epidendrum seriatum drawing fide;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum luteoroseum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum luteoroseum;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum lineare drawing fide;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia linearis
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum luteoroseum drawing fide;
Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as Epidendrum lineare;
Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971 as Encyclia luteorosea;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum luteoroseum drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum luteoroseum drawing fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum luteoroseum drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 705 Dodson 1982 as Encyclia leuteorosea drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia luteorosea drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as Encyclia luteorosea photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 237 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as Encyclia luteorosea drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Encyclia luteo-rosea drawing fide;
Selbyana 22: 4 W E Higgins 2001 as Prosthechea luteorosea;
Orchid Digest Vol 66 #3 2002;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1058 Hagsater & Soto 2008;
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 drawing fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:422 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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