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December 03, 2016

Epidendrum sp. ‘Jose Celestino Mutis’ determined to be Epidendrum rodrigoi





Award number: 2016-5817 PNW
Name:  Epidendrum sp  ‘Jose Celestino Mutis’
Parents: species

Horizontal / Width
Vertical / Length
Natural Spread
1.5
2.8
Dorsal Sepal
0.4
1.7
Petals
0.1
1.2
Lateral Sepals
0.4
1.5
Lip / Pouch
1.2
0.8




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). 

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