Encyclia brachychila (Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name or Meaning The Short-Lipped Encyclia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Colombia, and Venezuela in dense forests around elevations of 2000 as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a tough, woody rhizome without sheaths giving rise to lightly compressed, fusiform pseudobulbs with the lower half enveloped by sheaths and carryinmg 2 to 3 apical, leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, to 10 flowered, to 10" [25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with very fragrant, non resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium brachychilum [Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004; *Epidendrum brachychilum Lindl. 1846; Prosthechea brachychila (Lindl.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Epidendrum pachyanthum Schlechter 1919