Encyclia gallopavina (Rchb. f.) Porto & Brade 1986
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista ©
Drawing By © Marcos Campacci
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Common Name The Peacock-Like Encyclia [refers to the wide-spread colorful lip]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo, Rio De Janiero and Sao Paulo states of Brazil on old trees as a medium sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte in humid subtropical forests at elevations of 100 to 500 meters with spherical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating leaf sheaths carrying 2 apical, coriaceous, smooth, oblanceolate, rounded apically leaves and blooms in spring through summer in Brazil on a terminal, erect, arising on a mature pseudobulb with lanceolate stem clasping bracts to 3' [to 90 cm] long, paniculate, several to many [50] flowered inflorescence with triangular, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers that have a fragrance of tea.
Differs from all others in the genus by the very small midlobe of the lip that is smaller than the lateral lobes
Synonyms Encyclia purpurachyla (Barb. Rodr.) Porto & Brade 1935; Encyclia purpurachyla (Barb.Rodr.) Porto & Brade 1935; *Epidendrum gallopavinum Rchb. f. 1855; Epidendrum purpurachylum Barb. Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 49 Barb Rodr 1877 as Epidendrum purpurachylum;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 219 Rchb.f 1855 as Epidendrum gallopavinum;
* Rodriguésia 1(2): 29 Porto & Brade 1935;
Rodriguésia 1(2): 29 Porto & Brade 1935 as Encyclia purpurachyla;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as E purpurachyla drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 4 1992 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 65 #9 1996 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo/drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 060 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo fide
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