Encyclia parviflora [Regel] Withner 1998

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Common Name Small-flowered or Alata-like Encyclia

Flower Size 1.5" or less

Found in Mexico as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic or occasional terrestrial species from the eastern coasts in dry forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters with a pseudobulb enveloped by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, obtuse leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a 18" [45 cm] long, racemose, several flowered, paniculate inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Encyclia alata ssps. parviflora [Regel] Dressler & Pollard 1971; Encyclia belizensis ssps. parviflora [Regel] Dressler & Pollard 1974; *Epidendrumm alatum var parviflorum Regel 1856; Epidendrum jeansonnei J.M.H.Shaw 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 6: 374 Regel 1856 as Epidendrum alatum var parviflora;

Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as E alata susp parviflora;

Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 3: 310 Dressler & Pollard 1974 as E belizensis subsp parviflora;

The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 as E belizensis var parviflora photo fide;

Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as excluded species E belizensis subsp parviflora;

Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996;

*Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;

Orchid Rev. 111(1253): 78 J M H Shaw 2003 as Epidendrum jeansonnei;

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;

Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;

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