Encyclia fehlingii (Sauleda) Sauleda 1981
Photo by © NICK CANNAZZARO
TYPE Drawing By © Sauleda & R.M.Adams
Common Name Fehling's Encyclia [A resident and orchid enthusiast of Andros Island Bahamas later 1900's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Bahamas, mostly on Andros Islands as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte or epilithic with a short, stout, creeping rhizome giving rise to crowded, ovoid-elongate pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2 [3], apical, suberect, coriaceous, linear-oblong, rigid, roughened margined, acute leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, peduncle distally several sheathed, verrucose, paniculate, to 6.8 to 14.2" [17 to 36 cm] long, laxly to 50 flowered inflorescence with minute, ovate-triangular, obtuse, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary. floral bracts.
"Closely allied to Encyclia tampensis but differs in the midlobe of the lip has an undulate margin and revolute sides, The disc at the junction of the lobes has a 3 dentate, plate like callus. Lateral dents are securrent in erect keels with an additional interrupted ridge on both sides. Five undulate lamellae radiate from the midlobe." Sauleda.
Synonyms *Epidendrum fehlingii Sauleda 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 46:32 Sauleda & R.M.Adams 1977 as Epidendrum fehlingii;
* Brittonia 33: 187 Sauleda & R.M.Adams 1981
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 4 Withner 1996 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing ok;
Orchid Digest Vol 76 #1 2012 photo fide;
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