Encyclia gravida (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918

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Drawing

Drawing By © Fritz Hamer

Common Name The Heavy Fruit Butterfly Orchid

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chiriqui province of Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad in wet broadleafed forests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, usually wrinkled, ovoid to subglobose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious, evanescent bracts carrying 2 to 3, apical, rigid to flexible, coriaceous, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect to arcuate, peduncle terete, 3.6 to 11.6 [9 to 29 cm] long, racemose to paniculate, branches from .4 to 2.2" [1 to 5.5 cm] long, overall 4.8 to 28.4" [12 to 71 cm] long few to 24 flowered inflorescence.

This species is a part of the Encyclia oncidioides complex and most likely is a synonym of it along with, E dickinsoniana , Enc mooreana, Enc stellata, and Enc guianensis and Enc guatemalensis.

Synonyms Encyclia monticola (Fawc. & Rendle) Acuña 1939; Encyclia oncidioides var. gravida (Lindl.) Hoehne 1952; Encyclia sintenisii (Rchb.f.) Britton in N.L.Britton & P.Wilson 1924; *Epidendrum gravidum Lindl. 1849; Epidendrum monticola Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Epidendrum oncidioides var. gravidum (Lindl.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweif. 1935; Epidendrum sintenisii Rchb.f. 1885

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J. Hort. Soc. London 4: 114 Lindley 1849 as Epidendrum gravidum;

Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 3: 277 Rchb.f 1885 as Epidendrum sintenisii;

J. Bot. 47: 124 Fawc. & Rendle 1909 as Epidendrum monticolum;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum monticolum;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum sintensii;

Flora Of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum monticolum

Flora Of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum monticolum drawing fide;

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 472 Schlechter 1918;

Sci. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands 5: 197 Britton 1924 as Encyclia sintenisii;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 104 Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1935 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

Bol. Estaçión Exp. Agron. Santiago de las Vegas 60: 72 Acuña 1939 as Encyclia monticola;

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2(6): 153 Hoehne 1952 as Encyclia oncidioides var gravida;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Correll 1952 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Correll 1952 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum drawing fide;

Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 10 1957 drawing as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum;

Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Epidendrum oncidioides var gravidum drawing fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 34 #5 1970 as Epidendrum gravidum drawing fide;

The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;

AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 as Epidendrum gravidum;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 691 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;

Selbyana 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia gravida drawing fide;

The Orchids of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman & Mayda 1992 drawing good;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama Dressler 1993;

An Orchid Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide;

Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995;

Cattleya and Their relatives vol 4 Withner 1996 as E monticola photo good;

Cattleya and Their relatives vol 4 Withner 1996 as E sintenisii photo good;

Cattleya and Their relatives vol 5 Withner 1998 photo hmm/drawing good;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Laramendi 2005 photo fide;

Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2014 drawing/photo fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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