Encyclia pauciflora (Barb.Rodr.) C.Porto & Brade 1935
Photos by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © Peter B
Drawing by © Marcos Campacci
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Common Name or Meaning The Few Flowered Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in rain forests at elevation sof 500 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious sheaths in youth and carrying two, coriaceous, smooth, oblong-lanceolate, cymbidiform leaves leaves that blooms in the Brazilian spring [December] on a terminal, erect, provided with lanceoalte, clasping bracts, racemose, rarely with lateral panicles, 10.4" to [26 cm] long, 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular, much smaller than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying well spaced flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia dutrai Pabst 1955; Epidendrum dutrae (Pabst) A.D.Hawkes 1957 ; *Epidendrum pauciflorum B. Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 49 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Epidendrum pauciflorum;
* Rodriguésia 1(2): 29 Porto & Brade 1935;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 175 A D Hawkes 1957 as Epidendrum dutrae;
Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 3: 110 1955 as Epidendrum dutrae;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 as E dutrae drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 4 1992 drawing/photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E dutrai photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo/drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 070 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo good;
Lankesteriana 19(3):250 2019 as Encyclia dutrae photo fide
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