Encyclia gonzalezii L.C. Menezes 1991
TYPE Photo by © L C Menezes
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista ©
Photo by © Rick Cirino
Drawing By © V P Castro
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Common Name Gonzalez' Encyclia [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Goias and Tocantins states of Brazil in the montane forests at elevations around 200 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with conic-elongate, basally rounded, reddish initially pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating, deciduous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly lanceolate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long, paniculate, to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, stem-clasping bracts and well spaced flowers.
Similar to Encyclia argentinensis but with smaller flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 1 1991 photo fide;
Orquidário 10: 74 V P Castro & Campacci 1996 as Encyclia tocantinensis;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 062 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing/photo ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 as E tocantinensis photo fide;
Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo ok;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 139 V P Castro Neto 2006 drawing/photo fide
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