Encyclia angustifolia (Sw.) Schltr. 1918

Photo by © David Hunt

Common Name The Narrow-Leaved Encylia

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found only in Jamaica on trees at elevations around 450 to 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with densely clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying a single, grass-like, linear-ligulate, obtuse, obliquely emarginate leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, paniculate, 6.4 to 10.8" [16 to 27 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with small, few, distant, adpressed, triangular, acute to obtuse floral bracts.

Synonyms Encyclia subaquila (Lindl.) Nir 1994; *Epidendrum angustifolium Sw. 1788; Epidendrum harrisii Fawc. 1899; Epidendrum subaquilum Lindl. 1846;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 123 Sw. 1788 as Epidendrum angustifolium;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 32: t. 64 Lindley 1846 as Epidendrum subaquillum;

Symb. Antill. 1: 291 Fawcett 1899 as Epidendrum harrisii;

Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum subaquillum;

Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910;

* Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 277 Schlechter 1918;

The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum subaquilum;

Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum subaquilum;

The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 as Epidendrum subaquilum excluded species;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium subaquillum;

Lindleyana 9: 147 Nir 1994 as Encyclia subaquilla;

Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Ibisch 1995 photo good;

Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol IV Withner 1996 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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