Encyclia cyperifolia (C. Schweinf.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1993
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Common Name The Sword-Leafed Encyclia
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6 cm]
Found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru as a small to medium sized, hot to cool, pendant growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests that occurs at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters with ovoid-pyriform, [leek-like] lightly sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several basal, scarious sheaths and carries 3 to 4, narrowly linear, acuminate, coriaceous, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late summer and early fall on an apical, arising on a mature pseudobulb, erect, 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, pebbley, racemose or paniculate, few branched, each branch carrying a few [4 to 5] flowers, loosely few to several [15] flowered inflorescence with small tubular, scarious floral bracts and carrying nonresupinate flowers.
Synonyms Bletia ensiformis Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Encyclia ensiformis (Ruiz & Pav.) Mansf. ?; Encyclia microtis var grandiflora [Schweinf.] Hoehne 1952; Epidendrum cyperifolium C. Schweinf. 1953; Epidendrum microtos var. grandiflorum C. Schweinf. 1943
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.: 230 Ruiz & Pavon 1798 as Bletia ensiformis;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 11: 98 C Schweinfurth 1943 as Epidendrum microtis var grandiflorum;
Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 152 Hoehne 1952 as Encyclia microtis var grandiflora;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 16: 10 C Schweinfurth 1953 as Epidendrum cyerifolium;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum cyperifolium;
Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as Epidendrum cyperifolia;
*Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: 1257 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 as E ensiformis;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 035 Benmnett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 053 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing fide;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo good;
Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide;
The Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2004 drawing/photo fide
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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