Encyclia cajalbanensis Múj.Benítez, Bocourt & Pupulin 2004
photo by © Claude Hamilton
Photo by © Alejandro Pazo Daniel
TYPE Drawing by © Bocourt 2004
Common Name The Cajabal Encyclia [A plateau in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba]
Flower Size 1.2" [2.8 cm]
Found in Pinar Del Rio Cuba as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphye or lithophyte with clustered, ovoid, rugose pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, fleshy, rigid, basally conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, dentate margin, variable sized leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, simple, to 24" [60 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence with small, clasping, triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying sweetly scented flowers.
Similar to E fucata but differs in it's much larger plant and the shape of the larger lip with a reniform-suborbicular midlobe.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lankesteriana 12 2004 drawing fide; ;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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