Encyclia rosariensis Múj.Benítez, R.Pérez & Pupulin 2006
TYPE Photo by Ernesto Mujica/TYPE Drawing by R Perez and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Sierra del Rosario Encyclia [A mountain range in Pinar del Rio Cuba]
Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]
Found in Pinar del Rio province of Cuba on trees on evergreen thickets in serpentine regions at elevations around 350 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, ovate-pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped by evanescent sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, acute, conduplicate into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, slender, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with small, clasping, triangular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to E fucata but the new species had smaller flowers with a completely white labellum." Benítez, R.Pérez & Pupulin 2006
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orchids (West Palm Beach) 75: 692. Múj.Benítez, R.Pérez & Pupulin 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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