Encyclia pachyantha (Lindl.) Hoehne 1952
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Photo by © Rick Cirino ©
Drawing by © V P Castro
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Common Name The Fleshy-Flowered Encyclia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil in rain forests at elevations of 50 to 400 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte and is one of the largest plants and flowers in the genus with huge, 4" tall pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, thin, broad, strap-shaped, wavy margin, oblique and rounded leaves that are close to 2' long and blooms in the late spring and early summer in northern cultivation on an erect, stiff, racemose to few branched inflorescence with strongly scented flowers.
The leaves of this species show an abscission zone, but it does not function and so dead leaves do not fall naturally and must be cut away.
Synonyms Encyclia chironii V.P.Castro & J.B.F.Silva 2004; Encyclia latipetala (C.Schweinf.) Pabst 1967; Epidendrum latipetalum C.Schweinf. 1948; Epidendrum pachyanthum Lindl. 1838
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 31 Lindley 1838 as Epidendrum pachyanthum;
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 75: 219 C.Schweinf. 1948 as Epidendrum latipetalum;
*Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 154 Hoehne 1952;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 29: 9 Pabst 1967 as Encyclia latipetala;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 as E latipetala drawing ok;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 6 Withner 2000 photo hmm drawing ok;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 6 Withner 2000 as E latipetala drawing good;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 068 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing ok;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Richardiana 3: 69 V.P.Castro & A.Cardoso 2003 as E paraensis;
Richardiana 4: 140 V.P.Castro & J.B.F.Silva 2004 as Encyclia chironi;
Richardiana 15: 214 Sambin & Chiron 2015 as E trinitensis;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:443 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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