Anacheilium papilio [Vell.] Pabst, Moutinho & Pinto 1981

Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

Drawing

Drawing by Jane Herbst/Withner & Harding

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Common Name The Butterfly Anacheilium [refers to the flowers appearance]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais near Serra da Canastra, Rio de Janiero, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catalina states of Brazil on tree trunks in open forests as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowed, conical-oblong, clustered pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves and blooms on a terminal, 12.8" [32 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Encyclia papilio (Vell.) Pabst 1972; *Epidendrum papilio Vell. 1831; Hormidium papilio [Vell] Brieger?; Prosthechea papilio [Vell.] Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 28 Vell. 1831 as Epidendrum papilio; Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 29: 276 1967 publ. 1972 as Encyclia papilio;

Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1972 as Encyclia hartwegii;

*Bradea 3: 184 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981

Phytologia 82: 379 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea papilio;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo/drawing fide;

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