Encyclia campylostalix (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1922 Photo courtesy of Jeff and Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Bent-Column Foot Encyclia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte in lower montane cloud forests found at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters with an ovate-elliptic, compressed laterally, unifoliate pseudobulb subtended by a papery bract with oblong to elliptic leaves where it blooms with an apical, erect, occassionally branched, few to many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured psedobulb with flowers that do not open well occuring in the winter and spring.

Synonyms *Epidendrum campylostalix Rchb. f. 1852; Prosthechea campylostalyx (Rchb. f.) W.E. Higgins 1997