Encyclia chimborazoensis (Schltr.) Dressler 1971 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name or Meaning The Chimborazo Encyclia [A province of Ecuador]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found from Panama to Ecuador and Venezuela as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring in tall trees and trees hanging over rivers with oblong, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, l;anceolate, acute leaf that blooms on a terminal, from a spathe, to 2 3/4" [12 cm] long, few to several [3 to 15] flowered inflorescence with large, non resupinate flowers occuring at most any time of the year but mostly late winter until early summer.

Synonyms Anancheilium chimborazoense [Schltr] Withner & Harding 2004; *Epidendrum chimborazoense Schlechter 1916; Hormidium chimbrazoensis [Schltr.] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea chimborazoensis [Schltr] Higgins 1997