Encyclia x nizandensis Pérez-García & Hágsater 2003
Photo/TYPE Drawing by Gustavo Anceps Victoria
Common Name The Nizanda Encyclia [A region of Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in tropical, lowland montane, deciduous forests at elevations of sealevel to 450 meters as a natural hybrid between E. parviflora and E. rodolfoi as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte on limestone outcrops with clustered, conic-ovoid pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying 2 or 3, apical, coriaceous-fleshy, linear-lanceolate, arcuate, obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, racemose to paniculate, shortly branched, verrucose, 10 to 26" [25 to 66 cm] long overall, successively 3 to 20 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature psedudobulb and carrying, fragrant flowers.
Some characteristics of E. x nizandensis are intermediate between E. adenocarpon and E. papillosa , but it can be distinguished from those species by its basal lobes of the lip, larger than in E. adenocarpon, and its apical teeth of the column, which do not surpass the anther and are shorter than those of E. papillosa. Besides, E. nizandensis has a longer ovary, shorter inflorescence branches and internodes, and a small hump in the column, all of which features render E. nizandensis to be more similar to E. parviflora. However, the latter species has larger pseudobulbs, more succulent, darker flowers, and its ovary is not warty. Encyclia nizandensis is an hybrid, resulting from natural crosses between E. parviflora and has been found recently E. rodolfoi which has a warty ovary.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 564 Hagsater & Soto 2002/3 drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
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