Encyclia kingsii (C.D. Adams) Nir 1994
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Photo by © Frank Roulstone , North Side, Cayman Islands
Common Name King's Encyclia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found on Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands near the ocean close to sealevel as a medium sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with ovoid-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, rigid, coriaceous, linear, obtuse to rounded, conduplicate basally leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, slender, suberect, 22.8 to 30" [57 to 82 cm] long, much longer than the leaf, paniculate, distally few branched, each branch to 4.8" [12 cm] long, each branch to 8 flowered, 24 to 40 flowered inflorescence and bears fragrant flowers.
Ackerman compares it to E fucata and mentions that they may be conspecific.
Kew makes no mention of this species or its basionym.
Synonyms *Epidendrum kingsii C.D. Adams
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquidelogia 6:145 C D Adams 1971 as Epidendrum kingsii;
* Lindleyana Vol 9:147 Nir 1994
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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