Encyclia chondylobulbon (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 Photo by Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Cone-Like Bulb Encyclia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Oaxaca Mx., 1676m elev., Puerto Angel Rd, epiphytic on large Oaks.

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevation of 1000 to 2600 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing, cockleshell epiphyte and lithophyte that occurs in oak forest and scrub forest on lava fields with widely spaced, slightly compressed, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 5 apical, linear to narrowly linear-lancaolate, acute or subobtuse leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a short to 5 1/4" [13 cm], apical, 2 to 8 flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant flowers. This species is very similar to E radiatum and differs only in less leaves [3 or less] and has a sdistinct isthmus at the base of the lip before widening out to a transverse blade. E chacaoensis differs in having less elongate pseudobulbs, less leaves [2] and smaller flowers with a shorter, less pointed lip.

Synonyms Anacheilium chondybulbon [Rich & Gal.] Withner & Harding 2004; *Epidendrum chondylobulbon A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Hormidium chondylobulbon [Rich & Gal.] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea chondylobulbon (A. Rich. & Galeotti) W. E. Higgins 1997