Encyclia crassilabia (Poepp. & Endl.) Lemee' 1955

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Thick Lipped Encyclia

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guyana, Guyana and Brazil as a cool to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial in pine-oak forests with clustered, large, bimorphic, ovoid, compressed or long and cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring, summmer and fall on a terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, few to many [5 to 15] flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate, fleshy, rigid, color variable flowers.

There is a convoluted history here and much still needs to be determined, but much of what was once called Encyclia vespa is now Encyclia crassilabia and all that is left in the new determination of Anacheilium vespa is the one found in Brazil.

Synonyms Anacheilium crassilabium {Poep. & Endl.] Withner, Harding & Campacci 2004; Auliza wilsoni Gale' 1938; Aulizeum variegatum [Hkr.] Lindley ex Stein 1892; Encyclia christii (Rchb. f.) Dodson 1994; Encyclia crassilabia (Poepp. & Endl.) Dressler 1961; Encyclia feddeana (Kraenzl.) ined ?; Encyclia leopardina [Rchb.f] Dod. & Hags. 1994; Encyclia longipes (Rchb. f.) Dodson ?; Encyclia vespa (Vell.) Dressler 1971;Epidendrum baculibulbum Schltr. 1923; Epidendrum christii Rchb. f. 1877; Epidendrum coriaceum H. Focke 1853; Epidendrum coriaceum Parker ex Hkr. 1837; *Epidendrum crassilabium Poepp. & Endl. 1838; Epidendrum feddeanum Kraenzl. 1905; Epidendrum longipes Rchb. f. 1878; Epidendrum pachysepalum Klotzsch 1855; Epidendrum rhabdobulbon Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum rhopalobulbon Schltr. 1924; Epidendrum saccharatum Kraenzl. 1908; Epidendrum variegatum Hook. 1832; Epidendrum variegatum var. angustipetalum Hoehne 1947 ; Epidendrum variegatum var. coriaceum [Parker ex Hkr.] Lindl. 1853 ; Epidendrum variegatum var. crassilabium (Poepp. & Endl.) Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum variegatum var. leopardianum Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum variegatum var. virens Lindl. 1853; Hormidium coriaceum [Parker] Brieger 1960; Hormidium lineatum [Rchb.f] Brieger 1977; Hormidium variegatum [Hkr.] Breiger 1960; Hormidium virens [Lindl.] Brieger 1961; Prosthechea christii (Rchb. f.) Dodson & Hágsater 1999; Prosthechea crassilabia [Poepp. & Endl.] Carnevali & Ramierez 2003; Prosthechea leopardina (Rchb. f.) Dodson & Hágsater1999

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum crassilabium; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 9 1960 as Epidendrum christii photo ; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 7 1962 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 8 1993 photo as E vespa;

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