Encyclia aenicta Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971
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Common Name The Bronze Encyclia
Flower Size 1" to 1 5/8" [2.5 to 4cm]
Nayarit Mx., 900m elev., West slope of Sierra near Riolleto, epiphytic on Oaks
Found from central Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua in oak-pine and oak forests at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with clustered, conic-ovoid to rounded pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3, apical, very stiff, acute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an apical, 10" [25 cm] to 40" [1m] long, branched, many flowered inflorescence.
This species is related to Encyclia diota , Encyclia meliosma 1918 and Encyclia spatella but easily separated by the deeply cut lateral lobes of the lip and the resulting narrow isthmus at the base of the midlobe The callus is .08 to .14" [2 to 3.5 mm] wide anmd covers and extends slightly over the sinuses. In the other species there is a space .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] wide on each side of the callus that is not covered by it.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #4 1970 as Epidendrum pollardianum drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo/drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 drawing good;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide see E aenicta var leucoglossa;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo good;
Encyclia aenicta Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 var. leucoglossa
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Phytologia 21: 438 Dressler and Pollard 1971
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide
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