Oestlundia distantiflora (A.Rich. & Galeotti) W.E.Higgins 2001
Photo by © Freddy Archila
Drawing by © Eric Hagsater
EARLY 
Common Name The Distant Flowered Oestlundia [refers to the spacing of the flowers on the inflorescence]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Mexico and Belize in montane pine rainforests at elevations of 900 to 1350 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, conic-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3 apical, subcoriaceous, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, racemose or short branched, 6.8 to 16" [17 to 49 cm] long, lax, to 30 flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia distantiflora (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971; *Epidendrum distantiflorum A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 19 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 Epidendrum distantiflorum; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/11567#page/561/mode/1up
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as E distantiflorum;
Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971 as Encylcia distantifolia,
Icones Orchidacearum 1 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 as Encyclia distantiflora drawing fide;
Selbyana 22: 4 W E Higgins 2001 as Prosthechea distantifolia;
Orchid Digest Vol 66 #3 2002; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide
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