Award number: 2016-5817 PNW

Name:  Epidendrum

sp  ‘Jose Celestino Mutis’

Parents: species

 

Description:  Thirteen flowers on

two upright 19-cm inflorescences; plant 41-cm wide, 47-cm tall with 13 stems in

14.5-cm plastic pot grown in bark; plant is clumping type, stems with leaves

starting halfway up with deciduous sheaths below; leaves lanceolate green,

purple on reverse; inflorescences with multiple sheaths, semi-umbel; dorsal

sepal lanceolate, lateral sepals falcate, petals linear markedly reflexed,

light beige with chartreuse overlay; lip four lobed, lateral lobes rhomboid,

medial lobes long and rectangular, white, fuchsia centrally, column green,

anther cap white; substance sepals and petals papery, lip medium; texture waxy;

country of origin Colombia.

 

Epidendrum sp ‘Jose

Celestino Mutis’, award 20165817, has been determined to be Epidendrum rodrigoi by

SITF (Dec 2016).