Encyclia guanahacabibensis Sauleda & Esperon 2013
Photos by © Ruben Sauleda and his The New World Orchidaceae Website
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Common Name The Guanahacabibes Encyclia [A pennisula in far western Cuba]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in westernmost Cuba at elevations of sea level to 100 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped below by evansescent sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, stout, paniculate, 22" [to 55 cm] long, to 45 flowered inflorescence with scarious, clapsing, ovate acute bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos , Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* - The New World Orchidaceae Website
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