Encyclia guatemalensis [Klotzsch] Dressler & Pollard 1971
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What has been known as E belizensis
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Common Name Guatemalan Encyclia
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in dry scrub oak, oak forest and tropical semi-deciduous forests at altitudes of 100 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species with clustered, conical to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear-ligulate, acute leaves. It blooms in the late spring and summer and has an apical, arising on a mature pseudobulb, 6.8" to 24" [17 to 60 cm] long, erect to arching, racemose or branching, few to many flowered inflorescence with a slightly warty pedicel and ovary.
This species is a part of the Encyclia oncidioides complex and most likely is a synonym of it along with, E dickinsoniana , Enc gravida, Enc mooreana, Enc stellata, and Enc guianensis.
Kew considers E dickinsoniana as a synonym of this species, as of now I leave them separate pending more research.
Synonyms Encyclia alata var virella Dressler & Pollard 1971; Encyclia belizensis [Rchb.f] Schlechter 1918; Epidendrumm alatum var viridiflorum Regel 1856; Epidendrum belizensis Rchb.f 1876; *Epidendrum guatemalensis Klotsch 1852;
References W3 Tropicos , Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Allg. Gartenzeitung 20: 250 Klotsch 1852 as Epidendrum guatemalensis;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum virens;
* Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & Pollard 1971
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as E belizensis;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 as E belizensis;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 683 Hamer 1982 as E belizensis drawing fide;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia belizensis drawing fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992 as E belizensis photo fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama Dressler 1993;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 as E belizensis drawing good;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing good;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo good;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Genera Orchidaceae Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 as E belizensis drawing good;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 as E belizensis photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as E belizensis;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:434 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide; as Encyclia belizensis;
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