Encyclia thienii Dodson 1989
Photo By © Jay Pfahl
Drawing By © B Culbertson/Dodson 1989
Common Name Thein's Encyclia [American Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Pastaza and Napo provinces of Ecuador and Junin department of Peru at elevations of 450 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid-pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, narrowly oblong, coriaceous, obtuse, articulate at the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an apical, arising on a mature pseudobulb, erect, paniculate, smooth, to 2" [60 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with small triangular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts .
"Distinguished by the green flowers witha whitish lip, the smooth glabrous ovary, the callus covering the sinus of the lip and the subquadrate wings of the column." Dodson 1989;
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 458 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 055 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as E thienii drawing okish;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
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