Encyclia profusa [Rolfe] Dressler and Pollard 1971
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Fitch/Rolfe
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Common Name Profuse Encyclia [refers to the many flowers]
Flower Size1.24" [3.1 cm]
Found in Colombia without locational data as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3 apical, coriaceous ligulate, subobtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, 18 to 22" [45 to 55 cm] long, paniculate, branches flexuous, each branch 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, subobtuse, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
"E profusa can be easily separated from E cerastistes and E tarumana by the deep lip lobation and the sinus that reaches the central callus. In E cerastistes the lip lobation is shallow and the isthmus does not reach the sinus. The lip callus in e profusa is slender, runing to the base of the midlobe then tranforming into 3 verruculose ridges along the veins and disappears below the apex of the lobe. Similar ridges can be found in other species such as E conchaechila and E elegantula but the former has a verruculose pedicel and the later has a verruculose pedicel and ovary. E profusa has a smooth pedicellate ovary." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epidendrum profusum Rolfe 1914; Epidendrum oncidioides var profusum [Rolfe] Ames 1935; Encyclia oncidioides var profusa 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mag. 140: t. 8551 Rolfe 1914 as Epidendrum profusum
Bot. Mag. 140: t. 8551 Rolfe 1914 as Epidendrum profusum drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 107 Ames & C.Schweinf. 1935 as Epidendrum oncidioides var profusum;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum oncidioides var profusum;
Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2(6): 154 Hoehne 1952 as E oncidioides var profusa;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #5 1970 as Epidendrum profusum drawing fide;
* Phytologia 21: 437 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as E x profusa;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 Photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:433 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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