Encyclia plicata (Lindl.) Schltr. 1914
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Alejandro Pazo
TYPE Drawing by © Lindley/
Encyclia plicata var alba
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Common Name The Pleated Encyclia
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Cuba and the Bahamas at elevations of sea level to 200 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, with crowded, narrowly ovoid-subterete pseudobulbs subtended by scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, erect, coriaceous, rigid, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal, 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, erect, successivley several to many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature growth.
This large sized Encyclia appreciates a hot environment, high humidity, a wood mount and a decided rest after growth matures until the new growth arises in the late winter
Synonyms *Epidendrum plicatum Lindley 1847
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 33: t. 35 Lindley 1847 as Epidendrum plicatum;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 33: t. 35 Lindley 1847 as Epidendrum plicatum drawing fide;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum plicatum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 as Epidendrum plicatum drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum plicatum;
The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 drawing/photos fide;
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 4 Withner 1996 photo fide;
The Florida Orchidist Vol 42 No 1 1999 photo;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide;
