Encyclia pilosa (C.Schweinf.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993
Photo by © David Hunt/ Drawing by Gordon Dillon
LATER
Common Name The Hairy Encyclia [refers to the lip]
Flower Size
Found in southern Venezuela, Guainia department of Colombia and Peru at elevations around 100 to 200 [1800?] meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid-pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, suberect, very fleshy, channeled, narrowly linear, acute leaf that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, racemose to sparsely and shortly paniculate, to 18" [45 cm] long overall, several flowered inflorescence with small, triangular-ovate, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Easily separated from others in Colombia by its peculiar lip. The disc is papillose, with a broad pilose band terminating in a hairy callus. This species may be conspecific with E conchaechila."
Synonyms *Epidendrum pilosum C.Schweinf. 1843
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 11: 361 C Schweinfurth 1943 as Epidendrum pilosum Drawing fide
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum pilosum drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Vol 15 parte 3 Foldats 1970 as Epidendrum pilosum;
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: 1257 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Cattleyas and its Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:451 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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