Encyclia magnispatha (Ames, F.T. Hubb. & C. Schweinf.) Dressler 1961 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

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Common Name The Large Sheathed Encyclia

Endemic to Mexico as a warm to hot growing epiphyte of wet montane oak and mixed forests at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters where it blooms in the fall and winter on an apical, simple, 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence. It is similar to E. boothiana exept that the plant is larger and the flowers are at least twice as large in all parts.

Synonyms *Epidendrum magnispathum Ames, F.T. Hubb. & C. Schweinf. 1934

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