Encyclia kermesina (Lindl.) P.Ortiz 1995
Specimens by © Kew Herbarium
Common Name The Carmine Red Encyclia
Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]
Found in Magdelena department of Colombia and northern Venezuela in gullies at elevations around 1800 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with branching, elongate, narrow, oblong-fusiform, attenuate basally, slightly swollen pseudobulbs with the new growth arising from the bottom third of the previous pseudobulb carrying 3 to 4, thin, linear, acuminate, articulate, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, arising through a spathe, branched, branches 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, each branch 4 to 6 flowered, 16 to 24 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrrying rose colored flowers with yellow apices of the tepals.
Similar to E amanda with a short inflorescence with small flowers it differs in the subdensely 20 to 24 flowered inflorescence, the lip bnasally fused with the gymnostemium and its free part is only .28" [7 mm] long. The taxonomic position of this species requires further study to insure that it is an Encyclia." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epidendrum kermesinum Lindl. 1846
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid. Linden.: 4 Lindley 1846 as Epidendrum kermesinum;
Flora de Venezuela Part 3 Foldats 1970 as Epidendrum kermesina;
*Orquídeas Colombia: 258 Ortiz 1995;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:443 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023;
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