Encyclia randii [Barb.Rodr.]Porto & Brade 1935
Photo by © E Schnurr
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Tennis Maynard
TYPE Drawing of Epidendrum atropurpureum var randii
TYPE Drawing by © Linden
Encyclia randii Brade var. rondoniensis Jose Gonzalez 1991
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Common Name Rand's Encyclia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 2.5" [6.4 cm]
Found in Para, Amazonas, Acre, Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Amapa' and Roirama states of Brazil, Peru and Paraguay in the hot rainforest lowlands at elevations of 10 to 300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing, light loving, epiphytic species with pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several evanescent, imbricating sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly lanceolate-ligulate, cymbidiform leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an apical, 2' [60 cm] long, erect to arcuate, several to many [10 to 20] flowered, paniculate inflorescence that is longer than the leaves carrying strongly scented flowers.
The largest flowered Encyclia in the genus and very showy.
Synonyms Encyclia randiana [Linden & Rodg.] Withner 2000; *Epidendrum atropurpureum var randii. (Barb.Rodr.) Linden & Rodigas 1886; Epidendrum atropurpureum var. randianum hort.; Epidendrum randianum Barb. Rodr. 1886; Epidendrum randii Barb Rodr. 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindenia 2: 5, t. 49 L.Linden & Rodigas 1886 as Epidendrum atropurpureum var randii;
Lindenia 2: 5, t. 49 L.Linden & Rodigas 1886 as Epidendrum atropurpureum var randiidrawing fide;
Vellosia, ed. 2, 1: 123 Barb Rodr 1891 as Epidendrum randii
* Rodriguésia 1(2): 29 Porto & Brade 1935
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum atropurpureum var randii photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 10 1966 photo as Epidendrum atropurpureum var randii;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975;
Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 4 1991 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 4 1992 photo fide;
Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo/drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E randii var rondoniensis photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 071 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawimg ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo fide;
Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
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