Encyclia gilbertoi ( Garay ) P.Ortiz Valdivieso 1991 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name or Meaning Gilberto's Encyclia [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 20th cen]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [4.1 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric, spindle shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, leathery leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a 4" [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with fleshy flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium gilbertoi ( Garay ) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004; *Epidendrum gilbertoi Garay 1971; Hormidium gilbertoi ( Garay ) P.Ortiz Valdivieso , A.Martínez Martínez & G.Misas Urreta 1982; Prosthechea gilbertoi ( Garay ) W.E.Higgins 1998