Encyclia moebusii H.A. Dietr. 1985
Photos by © Claude Hamilton
Drawing by © B Angell/Ackerman
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Common Name Moebus' Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in northeastern Cuba in the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Massif zone on igneous rocks in wet thickets and pine woods or at the base of small trees and shrubs on montane slopes at elevations around 300 to 960 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte occuring on igneous rock exposed to sunlight with green to violet, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, green suffused with violet, linear to lanceolate, very coriaceous, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, basally coinduplicate leaves that blooms in the later spring through summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8.8 to 19.2" [22 to 48 cm] long, racemose to sparsely paniculate, each branch .6 to 8.4" [1.5 to 21 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered, overall 9.4" to 28" [23.5 to 70 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence.
Often given as a synonym of E triangulifera but E moebusii differs mostly in the color, the wide open upper lobes of the lip, the smaller flowers and the more floriferous inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Feddes Repert. 96: 563 Dietr. 1985
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol IV Withner 1996 as syn of E triangulifera;
The Orchids of Cuba Lllamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #8 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;
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