Encyclia diurna (Jacq.) Schltr. 1919 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Encyclia diurna (Jacq.) Schltr. 1919 var alba
Photo by © Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Chiappone
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Common Name Daytime Encyclia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Huila, and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, Surinam and Venezuela in slightly dense thickets, savannahs and premontane forests with ample air circulation at elevations up to 1650 meters as a medium sized, 2 to 3 leafed, warm to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic species with ovoid-conical, rugose pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3, apical, strap-shaped leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, arising on a mature pseudobulb that is much longer than the leaves, 6' [2 meter] long, apical, brown or maroon, paniculate or racemose, many flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying very fragrant flowers.
Easily distinguished by the rough inflorescence and ovary, by its large size (plant to 2'6" [62 cm] long, and the inflorescence can get to 80" [200 cm]) and relatively large, although dull colored flowers.
Synonyms Cymbidium diurnum [Jacq.] Sw. 1799; Cymbidium glandulosum Kunth 1816; Encyclia glandulosa [Kunth] Ortiz 1991; Encyclia virens Schltr. 1914; Encyclia wageneri [Klotsch]Schlechter 1919; Epidendrum diurnum (Jacq.) Poiret 1810; Epidendrum diurnum (Jacq.) Rchb. f. 1866; Epidendrum glandulosum (Kunth) Garay 1962; Epidendrum virens Lindl 1851; Epidendrum wageneri Klotsch 1851; *Limodorum diurnum Jacq. 1790;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Collectanea 4: 107 Jacq. 1791 as Limordium diurnum;
Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 6: 75 Sw 1799 as Cymbidium diurnum;
Encycl., Suppl. 1: 375 Lamarck 1810 as Epidendrum diurnum;
Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 340 HBK 1816 as Cymbidium glanulosum;
Paxton's Fl. Gard. 1: 152 Lindley 1850 as Epidendrum virens nom. illeg.;
Allg. Gartenzeitung 19: 250 Klotsch 1851 as Epidendrum wagneri;
Bonplandia 2:19 Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum wageneri;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum diurnum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as E virens nom. superfl.;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 74 Schlechter 1919;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 75 Schlechter 1919 as E virens;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 75 Schlechter 1919 as E wageneri;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as E virens drawing fide;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Epidendrum ochranthum;
Caldasia 8: 523 Garay 1962 Epidendrum glandulosum nom. illeg.
Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962 as Epidendrum glandulosum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum virens;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum diurnum drawing good;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Epidendrum diurnum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Epidendrum diurnum;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum diurnum drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum diurnum drawing good;
Las Orquideas Nativas de Cuba Aleida Dias 1985 photo not = ?;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 18:99 #1 1991 as Cymbidium glandulosum;
Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 as E virens photo not = E ambigua;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 as E virens photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E remotiflora;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as E remotiflora;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2012 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as an excluded species;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 drawing good/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 as Limodorum diurnum drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:428 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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