Encyclia parkeri Reina-Rodr. & Leopardi 2014
Photos by © Jeff Parker
Drawing by © C Leopardi
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Common Name or Meaning Parker's Encyclia [Jeff Parker, Co-Owner of Tropical Orchid Farm Hawaii current]
Flower Size 1.2 to 1.36" [3 to 3.4 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia on the western slope of the western cordillera at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, but shortly creeping, ovoid, green, smooth in youth becoming finely wrinkled with age pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by white papery sheaths and carrying 3, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, somewhat twisted, thick, rigid, carinate midnerve in the lower half leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle green, thin yet fairly strong, paniculate, rachis smooth, 18 to 26.4" [45 to 66 cm] long overall, many flowered inflorescence with slightly rough pedicellate ovaries and carrying showy flowers.
"Encyclia parkeri is geographically close to three species of Encyclia in the Cauca river valley: Encyclia chloroleuca however, E parkeri is easily distinguished by the shorter and wider petals (on average 1.35 × 0.65 vs. 2.09 × 0.57 cm in the latter) and the central lobe of the labellum, that has at least three verrucose carinae (not smooth as in E. chloroleuca. Encyclia ceratistes , and Encyclia betancourtiana which is distinguished by the completely warty rachis and pedicellate ovary. Encyclia ceratistes is distinguished from E. parkeri by the length of inflorescence, the number of flowers, the truncated lateral lobes and the long apical portion of the central lobe. Encyclia parkeri is distinguished from E. silverarum by the labellum which has a central lobe with verrucose carinae and longer lateral lobes. The central lobe of the labellum in E. parkeri features tiny purple spots whereas the perianth is tinged of maroon. In E. silverarum, on the other hand, the central lobe is smooth, the lateral lobes are shorter and wider and the keels of the central lobe of the labellum are colored with purple stripes. (" Reina-Rodr. & Leopardi 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytotaxa 183: 164 Reina-Rodr. & Leopardi 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:430 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023;
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