Encyclia garciae-esquivelii Carnevali & I.Ramírez 2004

Drawings

Photo by © Ch. Tsoutis/Drawings by A Krol

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Common Name Garcia and Esquivel's Encyclia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Aragua state of Venezuela in low-lying xeromorphic vegetation along the coast at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with clustered, suborbicular-pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by 2 to 3 scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, linear-oblong, acute, apex minutely unequal, revoulte margins, blades often twisted 90 to 180 degree leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, paniculate, 1 to 5 branched each branch 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, each branch 2 to 6 flowered, peduncle terete, relatively thin, wiry, dull purple brown, densely verruculose, verrucae creamy white to green, 10.8 to 28" [27 to 70 cm] long, 6 to 30 flowered inflorescence carrying sweetly fragrant flowers.

Similar to E diurna But differs with proportionally shorter leaves, often 3 leaves per pseudobulb, usually shorter inflorescence and conspicuously smaller flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Novon 14: 416 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 2004;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:457 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;

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