Encyclia ferreirae Campacci & J.B.F.Silva 2016
Photos by © J. B. F. Silva/TYPE Drawing by Pinheiro de Araujo
Common Name Ferreira's Encyclia [Brazilian female biological technician current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in northwestern Para state of Brazil at elevations around 160 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with pyriform-elongate, initially smooth becoming somewhat rugose with age, bifoliate pseudobulbs carrying rigid, coriaceous, oblong leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence.
Similar to Encyclia paraensis but differs in larger flower size and narrower shape of the sepals and petals.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 12: 478 Campacci & J.B.F.Silva 2016 drawing/photo fide
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