Encyclia kingsii (C.D. Adams) Nir 1994 Photo courtesy of Frank Roulstone , North Side, Cayman Islands

Common Name King's Encyclia

Flower Size

Found on Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with single leafed pseudobulbs found near sealevel and near the ocean where it blooms in the spring on a slender, 20" [80 cm] long, distally few branched, few flowered panicle that is much longer than the leaf and bears several, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms *Epidendrum kingsii C.D. Adams

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996;