Encyclia leucantha Schltr. 1919
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
and EARLY 
Common Name The White Encyclia
Flower Size 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]
Found in Boyaca and Vichada departments of Colombia and Amazonas state of Venezuela in dry semi-deciduous forests or on rock lajas at elevations of 50 to 300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear, obtuse to subacute leaves that blooms on a terminal, mostly paniculate, erect, laxly few to many flowered, 6.8" to 18.8" [17 to 47 cm] long inflorescence enveloped basally by a few imbricate, scarious bracts.
The flower resembles E cyperifolia but distinguished by the lip callus. Its disc is ornamentede with 3 massive carinae joined together forming a long padand the basal callus is oblong and papillose-puberulent." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Epidendrum leucanthum [Schlechter] Schnee 1945; Epidendrum leucanthum (Schltr.) C.Schweinf. 1962
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 40 Schelchter 1919;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 74 Schlechter 1919;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum amictum drawing fide;
Bot Mus. Leafl. 20:17 Schweinfurth 1962 as Epidendrum leucanthum;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum leucanthum drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum leucanthum drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 7 1993 photo good;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Genera Orchidaceae Vol 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase aand Rasmussen 2005 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:456 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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