Encyclia brassavolae (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
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Common Name The Brassavola-Like Encyclia [refers to the flower shape]
Flower Size to 4" [to 10 cm]
Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at altitudes of 900 to 2500 meters in wet pine oak and evergreen forest on larger branches and tree trunks as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with elongate, ovoid, bifoliate pseudobulbs with papery, basal bracts and a elliptic oblong, obtuse leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an apical, erect, to 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to many [6 to 9] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb subtended by a large brown sheath and having faintly fragrant, fleshy flowers.
Synonyms *Epidendrum brassavolae Rchb. f.1852; Prosthechea brassavolae (Rchb. f.) W. E. Higgins 1997
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