Encyclia chacaoensis (Rchb. f.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 Photo courtesy of Weyman Busssey
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Common Name Chacao Encyclia [A region in Colombia]
Flower Size less than 2" [less than 5 cm]
Found from Nicaragua to Colombia and Venezuela as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, cockleshell epiphyte or lithophyte from oak forests at elevations of sealevel to 1200 [3350?] meters with gray green, subcylindric, to ovoid pseudobulbs subtended by bracts with 2 to 3, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms in the midwinter till early summer on an apical, 2 to 8 flowered, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, racemose inflorescence subtended by a basal sheath, that is shorter than the leaves and arises on a newly mature pseudobulb with fleshy, fragrant, nonresupinate flowers. This species is often confused with E ionophlebia but it has a notch on the apical end of the lip and the lip is not flshy and normally has purple lines.
Synonyms Anacheilium chacoense [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004; *Epidendrum chacaoense Rchb. f. 1854; 1866; Epidendrum pachycarpum Schltr. 1906; Hormidium chacoense [Rchb.f] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea chacaoensis (Rchb. f.) W. E. Higgins 1997;