Encyclia asperula Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1974
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Dressler & Pollard
Photo by © Peter Szabo
Drawing by © R Jimenez/Hagster/Salazar
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Common Name The Asperulous Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize as a small, compact, single leafed, hot to cool growing epiphyte from elfin forest, tropical rain forest and montain rain forests at elevations of 350 to 1250 meters with subglobose to ovoid-pyriform, slightly rugose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear, acute, fleshy-coriaceous, rigid, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a 4" [10 cm] long inflorescence with a verrucose, purplish peduncle and rachis arising on a mature pseudobulb carrying longlasting, semi-fragrant flowers held at mid leaf.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 3: 273 Dressler & Pollard 1973 publ. 1974;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo good/drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 15 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Genera Orchidaceae Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase aand Rasmussen 2005 drawing ok;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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