Encyclia hartwegii[Lindl.] R. Vásquez & Dodson 1982 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Gerardus Staal

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Common Name Hartweg's Encyclia [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1800's]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.7 cm]

This small to medium sized, hot to cold growing, epiphytic species is found from Venezuela, Colombia through Peru at elevations of 1300 to 3000 meters often in full sun with clustered, compressed, conical to ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying a single [mostly], linear-elliptic, acute leaf and blooms in the spring on an apical, 5 1/2" [14 cm] long, erect, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured psuedobulb with fleshy, non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium hartwegii (Lindl.) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981; *Epidendrum hartwegii Lindl. 1844; Prosthechea hartwegii (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997

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