Encyclia fucata (Lindl.) Britton & Millsp. 1920
Photo courtesy of Luis Borges in Cuba
Drawing By © Oakes Ames
EARLY
Common Name The Brown Veined Encyclia - In Cuba - Vainilla Amarilla
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Bahamas, Hispanola and Cuba in coffee plantations and deep forests at elevations around 300 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte on coral rock or on solitary trees in grasslands with 2 to 3, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the summer through early fall on a terminal, erect, slender, to 28" [70 cm] long, panicle carrying many [50], very fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Epidendrum affine Richard 1850; *Epidendrum fucatum Lindl. 1838; Epidendrum obcordatum Jenn. 1917; Epidendrum polyanthum Lindl. 1853;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 15 Lindley 1838 as Epidendrum fucatum
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 236 A Rich. 1850 as Epidendrum hircinum;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum hircinum;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum fucatum
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum fucatum drawing fide;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum fucatum;
*Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht.: 209 Schlechter 1914;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 ;
Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 11: 101 Jenn 1917 as Epidendrum obcordatum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum fucatum;
Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanas Acuña 1938;
Bol. Estaçión Exp. Agron. Santiago de las Vegas 60: 74 Acuña 1939 as Encyclia hircinum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum fucatum;
Las Orquideas Nativas de Cuba Aleida Dias 1985 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relativers Vol 4 Withner 1996 photo fide;
Iconografia de Orquideas Cubanas Perez & Bocourt 1997 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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