Encyclia hanburyi (Lindl.) Schltr. 1914
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Common Name Hanbury's Encyclia [English Orchid Enthusisast early 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala in well drained clay soil amid dry oak and pine forests on trees or occasionally rocks at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, terrestrial species with clustered, ovoid-conical, yellow green, rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, apical, very rigid, coriaceous-fleshy, narrowly elliptic or linear-oblong, subacute to obtuse, carinate, basally conduplicate leaves that flowers in the late winter through early summer on an apical, erect, racemose or few branched, provided with scarious, tubular, obtuse bracts, peduncle, smooth, to 14" [35 cm] long, terete, 7.2 to 28" [18 to 70 cm] long overall, many [35] flowered inflorescence with somewhat cucullate, widely triangular-ovate, somewhat fleshy floral bracts and carrying slightly fragrant flowers.
"This handsome Encyclia is recognized by its broad midlobe of the lip, usually pink and densely veined with magenta. The column and the bases of the buds are conspicuously bowed. The plants are rather distinct, with comparatively short, stiff, strongly arcuate leaves. Encyclia hanburyi has scattered, isolated populations, each one somewhat different from the others. Some populations in Chiapas and Puebla are formed by plants with pale, large flowers; others in Oaxaca have dark, small flowers with somewhat incurved lateral sepals." Soto 2002
Synonyms Epidendrum atropurpureum var. roseum (Bateman) Rchb. f. 1854; Epidendrum hanburyanum B.S.Williams 1862; *Epidendrum hanburii Lindl. 1844
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30(Misc.): 46 Lindley 1844
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 2: 101 B S Williams 1862, orth. var.
* Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht.: 209 Schlechter 1914
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum hanburgii;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #9 1970 as Epidendrum hanburyi drawing fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 drawing/photo fide;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;
A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine and Anderson 1991 photo fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing ok;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Botanicas Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 559 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide;
Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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