Encyclia glauca ( Knowles & Westc. ) Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1971 Photo By Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Waxy Encyclia [refers to the plants surface]

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Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduraas and El Salvador in mderately wet oak forests at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte with rounded, oval, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single leaf and blooms on a peduculate, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer with scented flowers

Synonyms Amblostom tridactylum var mexicanum Kranzl. 1920; Encyclia limbata [Lindl] Dressler 1961; Epidendrum glaucum (Knowles & Westc.) Lindl. 1840; Epidendrum glaucovirens ames, Hubbard & Schwein. 1936; Epidendrum limbatum Lindl. 1843; Epithecia glauca (Knowles & Westc.) Knowles & Westc. 1838; *Prosthechea glauca Knowles & Westc. 1838

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