Side View of Flower Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo by © Rick Cirino

Common Name Madero's Encyclia [Colombian, original collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size 1.52" [3.8 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1000 meters in well exposed locations on trees as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, linear, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 12 to 24" " [30 to 60 cm] long, paniculate, several to many flowered inflorescence with deltoid, obtuse, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

The mid lobee of the lip is more or less orbicular, like in E mooreana, E expansa and some other species but the lip callus of E maderoi consists of 4 parellel, thickened ridges which are sulcate dorsally annd are foveate-rhombic towards the apex with a hollow in the center." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Now thought to be a synonym of E replicata, I have kept them separate pending better references.

E maderoi, E magdalenae, E edithiana, E garzonensis and E expansa are all considered to be E replicata by Kew. I have kept them all separate for now.

Synonyms Epidendrum bacigalupianum A.D.Hawkes 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 155 Schlechter 1920;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 254 Schlechter 1920;

Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 168 A D Hawkes 1957 as Epidendrum bacigalupianum;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo/drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:446 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023;

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