Encyclia naranjapatensis Dodson 1977 Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
Another Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another Flower Photo by © Rick Cirino
TYPE Drawing by Calaway Dodson
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Common Name The Naranjapata Encyclia [A town In Ecuador]
Flower Size 1.2” [3 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry cloud forests on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with onion-shaped pseudobulbs, basally enveloped with green then becoming evanescent sheaths carrying 2 apical, strap-shaped, acute, conduplicate below and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter through summer on a 2’4" [70 cm] long, branching, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.
This species is separated from other Ecuadorian species by it’s white lip and smooth ovary.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 2:50 Dodson 1977 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 069 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:440 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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