Encyclia inopinata Leopardi , Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2016
Photo by © Carlos L. Leopardi-Verde and Phyto Keys webSite
EARLY 
Common Name The Unexpected Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2 to 1.36" [3 to 3.4 cm]
Found in Oaxaca state of western Mexico at elevations around 1200 to 1300 meters as a large sized, cool growing lithophyte with clustered, ovoid to pyriform, green and smooth in youth, maroon or purple stained with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, apical, linear-oblong to oblong-ligulate, subacute, coriaceous, dark green to purple tinged, conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, racemose to paniculate, 3 to 4 branched, each branch 1.4 to 4.4" [2.6 to 11 cm] long, 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long ovarall, to 50 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 8 flowers on each branch
Related to E diota and E aenicta
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* PhytoKeys 58: 87-95 12 Leopardi, Carnevali & G.A.Romero Jan 2016 Photos fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #3 2016 photo fide;
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