Encyclia guianensis Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1994
Photo by © Marga Werkhoven
Photo by © Schnur
TYPE Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name The Guiana Encyclia
Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela, Guyana and Surinam in wet tropical forests at elevations around 100 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an abbreviated rhizome giving rise to pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2[3] broad, short, ligulate, stiff, obtuse, obscurely bilobed leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, paniculate, 2 to 4 branched, each branch 2 to 5 flowered, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, verriculose, densely several flowered inflorescence with loose, inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying resupinate, wide open, long lived flowers.
The Authors stated in their type description that the photo by Marga Wrkhoven was this species so it is absolutely correct.
Similar to E ceratistes such as the narrow floral segements and the ovate, acute central lobe of the lip, but E guinanesis is a smaller plant with shorter and denser inflorescence, the pedicellate ovaries are veruculose, differently colored tepals and the lateral lobes of the lip are longer and narrower. Moreover the wings of the column are better developed.
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 and Enc guatemalensis.
Synonyms Epidendrum affine Focke 1853
References W3 Tropicos , Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 11: 341 Focke 1853, nom. illeg.
Orchids of Suriname Werkhoven 1986 photo fide as O oncidioides
* Lindleyana 9[1] 63 Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1994 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing okish; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 drawing/photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing hmm;
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