Encyclia bragancae Ruschi 1976
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by © Marcos Campacci
Common Name The Braganca Encyclia [A town in Espirito Santo state of Brazil]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in rainforests at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform, basally rounded pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by imbricate, deciduous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly ligulate, cymbidiform, gradually becoming conduplicate towards the clasping base leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, rarely a few lateral branches, 7" [17.5 cm] long, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence
Similar to Encyclia euosma but differs in the smaller flower size of the plant, the extremely crepitated margins and veins of the midlobe of the lip and flowering in the fall versus E euosma that has larger flowers with diffferent margins and veins and flowering in the spring.
Synonyms Encyclia xuxaensis Fowlie & Duveen 1991; Encyclia xuxiana Fowlie & Duveen 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bol. Mus. Biol. Prof. Mello-Leitão. Sér. Bot. 84: 1 Ruschi1976
Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 4 1991 as E xuxaensis photo fide;
Orchid Digesat Vol 56 No 4 1992 as E xuxiana photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilense I Plate 049 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo fide;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide
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