Encyclia auyantepuiensis Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1994
Photo by © © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing By © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name The Auyantepui Encyclia [refers to Devil's Mountain a Tepui in southern Venezuela]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Bolivar and Amazonas state of Venezuela and Roirama state of Brazil in high montane forests on open sandstone outcrops at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing lithophyte with pyriform to elongate-pyriform, basally rounded pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by imbricate, deciduous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, erect, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly lanceolate-ligulate, cymbidiform, gradually becoming conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect, racemose, rarely with lateral branches, 12 to 18" [30 to 45 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence.
Related to Encyclia leucantha but differs in laxer infloresccneeand the central lobe of the lip as well as the perianthe segments are acute. It is also closely related to Encyclia linearifolioides but E auyantepuensis differs in the longer, laxer inflorescence the narrower suborbicular central lobe of the labellum and broader lateral lobes and a broader callus that penetrates deeper into the central lobe." Carnevali & Ramirez 1994
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 9: 61 Carnevali & Ramirez 1994
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum oncidioides not drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as E oncidioides drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 drawing good;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 136 Castro Neto 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Boletim CAOB 69/70 2008 photo fide;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:464 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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