Encyclia baculus (Rchb. f.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 Photo by Patricia Harding

Common Name The Stake-Like Encyclia [refers to the pseudobulbs appearance]

Flower Size to 3" [7.5 cm]

This medium sized, hot to cool growing, cockleshell epiphytic species is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica and south to Colombia and Brazil in lower montane forests at altitudes of 400 to 1700 meters with fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, towards the apex, lanceolate to ligulate-elliptic, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and summer and fall with an apical, short to 2 1/2" [6.25 cm], erect, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with a prominent basal sheath arising on a newly matured, fusiform, cylindric, bifoliate pseudobulb giving rise to fragrant [honey], inverted flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium baculus [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004; Encyclia pentotis (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; Epidendrum acuminatum Sessé & Moc. 1798; *Epidendrum baculus Rchb. f. 1856; Epidendrum beyrodtianum Schltr. 1915; Epidendrum pentotis Rchb. f. 1876; Hormidium baculuc [Rchb.f] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea baculus (Rchb. f.) W. E. Higgins 1997;

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