Encyclia amanda (Ames) Dressler 1971

Photo by David Hunt

Drawing

Drawing By © M. López-Rosas/Hagsater & Sosa 2002

THROUGH LATE

Common Name The Lovely Encyclia

Flower Size .5" to .76" [1.25 to 1.9 cm]

Found from Oaxaca, Chiapas and Quintana Roo states of Mexico Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in low rain forest as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 40 to 1000 meters with pyriform, rugose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricating, scarious sheaths carrying 2 [sometimes one] apical, coriaceous, ligulate leaves and blooms in the winter on an erect, arising on a mature or maturing pseudobulb, racemose, provided with 4 closey adpressed, scarious bracts, 3.2 to 5.6" [8 to 14 cm] long overall, as long as the leaves, rachis to 2.4" [6 cm] long, few [2 to 5] flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

This species is said to be synomonous with Encyclia chloroleuca , but I will leave them separate at this time but if so then E chlorolueca takes precedence.

Synonyms *Epidendrum amandum Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Schedul. Orchid. 4: 36 Ames 1923 as Epidendrum amandum

Orchid Digest Vol 34 #5 1970 as Epidendrum amandum drawing fide;

*Phytologia 21: 440 Dressler 1971;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1016 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 9 1987 photo fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama Dressler 1993;

Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V Withner 1998 photo ok;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;

Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 555 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide;

Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;

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