Encyclia parviloba (Fawc. & Rendle) Nir 1994
Photos by © The Species Identification Task Force of the AOS Website
TYPE Drawing by © Fawcett & Rendle
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Common Name or Meaning The Small Lobed Encyclia
Flower Size
Found in Hanover parish of Jamaica on trees and rupicolus on limestone ledges at elevations around 400 to 550 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, ovoid-pyriform pseudobulbs subtended by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear-ligulate, obtuse leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender peduncle, rachis paniculate, to 12" [30 cm] long, laxly, sequentially 1 to 2, 15 to 42 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying small, cleistogamus, green flowers.
Synonyms *Epidendrum parvilobum Fawc. & Rendle 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Bot. 47: 123 Fawcett & Rendle 1909 as Epidendrum parvilobum;
Flora of Jamamica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum parvilobum
Flora of Jamamica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum parvilobum drawing fide;
The Cattleyas and their Relatives Vol IV Withner 1996;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
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