Encyclia joaosaiana Campacci & Bohnke 2008
Type Photos/TYPE drawing by © Marcos Campacci
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Common Name Joao Sa's Encyclia [Brazilian Original Collector of species current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in the Chapada Diamantina in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations around 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with pyriform-elongate, smooth becoming rugose with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying 2, rigid, coriaceous, oblong, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late spring in situ on a terminal, to 28" [70 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence .
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*COAB 69/70 28-31 Campacci Bohnke 2006 drawing/photo fide
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