Encyclia huebneri Schltr. 1925
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Common Name Huebner's Encyclia [German Orchid Collector in Colombia early 1900's]
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Found Venezuela and in northern Amazonas state of Brazil at elevations around 1500 meters as a cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the late winter and early spring.
Withner states that this species has a white lip, an auriculate column and an obovate lip midlobe with an emarginate apex and verrucose thickened veins
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!
Kew puts this one as a synonym of Encyclia granitica
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 42(2): 105 Schlechter 1925
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964 as Epidendrum huebneri;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 6 Withner 2000 dubious species;
LANKESTERIANA 20(2): 67–216. Ossenbach & Jenny 2020 photo fide
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