Encyclia papillosa (Bateman) Ag.-Olav.1887
photo by © Glen Pollard and The AMO Herbaria Website
Photo by © Rick Cirino
Drawing by © Igna.cio Aguirre Olavarrieta
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Common Name The Butterfly Encyclia
Flower Size
Found from Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua at elevations of 30 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte, rarely terrestrial with close set, ovoid-conical to ellipsoid pseudobulbs enveloped by white, scarious sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, apcial, coriaceous, linear, acute, dark green, opaque leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an arching, paniculate, to 32" 80 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts. .
"This species is easily recognized by the narrrow leaves and light yellow, not showy flowers. It is distinguished from E . adenocarpa by the rounded, oblong-obovate lateral lobes, the length subequal to the middle lobe and The flabellate, lateral teeth of the spine exceed the length of the anther." Aguirre Olavarrieta 1987
CAUTION!!!! Many references put this species as a synonym of E adenocarpa and it may well be but I await better references. They do appear to be very close.
Synonyms *Epidendrum papillosum Bateman 1838
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 7 Bateman 1838 as Epidendrum papillosum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum papillosum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 10 1959 as Epidendrum papilosum photo ok;
* ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 10 (2): 387 Aguirre Olavarrieta 1987 drawing/photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo ok;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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