Encyclia fusca (Schltr.) D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1998 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

Common Name The Dark Encyclia [refers to the somber brown color of the flower]

Flower Size 1 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 2500 meters with slender, cylindric-fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 oblong, retuse, coriaceous leaves where it blooms in nature in the spring on a terminal pendunculate, laxly flowered, 9 1/4" [23 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a fully matured pseudobulb with 8 to 10 non-resupinate, fleshy flowers. Carlos Hajek's photo is upside down sorry. This species can be mistaken for E bennettii.

Synonyms Anacheilium fuscum [Schlechter] Withner & Harding 2004; *Epidendrum fuscum Schlechter 1921; Prosthechea fusca [Schlechter] Bennet & Christ. 2001