Encyclia acutifolia Schltr. 1923

Photo by © Claude W Hamilton and his Hamlyn Orchids Website

Common Name The Acute Leaved Encyclia

Flower Size 1.52" [3.8 cm]

Found in Cuba and Haiti on trees and shrubs in semi-deciduous forests at elevations around sealevel to 400 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid to pear-shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single to rarely 2, apical, erect, stiff, coriaceous, linear, acute to obtuse, retuse, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer through late winter on a terminal, racemose to 1 to 2, shortly branched, thin, to 13.6" [to 34 cm] long, distantly bracted, to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum acutifolium (Schltr.) Carabia 1943

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum replicatum in error = E acutifolia;

Urban, Symb. Antill. 9: 66 Schlechter 1923;

Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist. Nat. ''Felipe Poey'' 17: 146 Caraiba 1943 as Epidendrum acutifolium;

Iconografia de Orquideas Cubanas Perez & Bocourt 1997 drawing hmm = E acutifolia drawing fide;

*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol IV Withner and Harding 1996 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Cuba llamacho and Laramendi 2005 photo good;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as an excluded species E replicata = E acutifolia

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