Encyclia ochrantha (A.Rich.) Withner 1996
Photo by Claude Hamilton
TYPE sheet/TYPE Drawing by A Richard
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Common Name The Ochre-Colored Flower Encyclia
Flower Size to 1.8" [to 4.5 cm]
Found in western Cuba as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs carrying 1 to possibly 3, apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, lanceolate, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, as long as the leaf, erect, stout, peduncle 24 to 36" [60 to 90 cm] long, paniculate, sparsely and diffusely branched, laxly to 13 flowered inflorescence
"Vegetatively E monteverdensis is similar to the type sepcimen of E ochrantha but the shape of the labellum is quite different with E ochrantha having a mid lobe about as long as broad while the lip of E monteverdensis is much longer than broad." Ackerman 2014
Synonyms Encyclia ochrantha (A.Rich.) Withner 1996; *Epidendrum ochranthum A.Rich. 1850; Prosthechea ochrantha (A.Rich.) J.M.H.Shaw 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 7 1996 drawing fide;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 5 Withner 1998 photo/drawing herbarium specimen fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing ok;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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