Encyclia thrombodes (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1921
Photo by © Dario Melgar
Petals more correct to drawings of E pflanzii
Photo by © Cassio van den Berg
HOLOTYPE Sheet and HOLOTYPE Drawing
HOLOTYPE Drawing by © Rchb.f
Drawing by © Roberto Vasquez
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Common Name Pflanz's Encyclia [German Orchid Collector in Bolivia early 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Peru and La Paz and Cochabamba departments of Bolivia in subxerophytic forests at elevations of 850 to 2370 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte on tree trunks or terrestrial with ovate, wrinkled with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by a few scarious bracts and carrying 2 apical, erect, linear, acute, conduplicate towards into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, terminal, branched, longer than the leaves, 16" [40 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.
"Characterized by the flower color, the narrowly ovoid lateral lobes of the lip, the midlobe with warty furrows and the auricles on either side of the stigma." Dodson 1989
Synonyms Encyclia pflanzii Schltr. 1922; Epidendrum pflanzii (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957; *Epidendrum thrombodes Rchb.f. 1876
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Linnaea 41: 79 Rchb.f 1876 as Epidendrum thrombodes;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 154 Schlechter 1921
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 46 Schlechter 1922 as E pflanzii;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 177 A D Hawkes 1957 as Epidendrum pflanzii;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum thrombodes;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0322 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as E pflanzii drawing differs most in the petals, our first photo has bilobed apex with acute lobes the second is exact;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E thrombodes photo hmm;
The Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vaquez & Ibisch 2004 as E pflanzii drawing/photo fide
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