Encyclia rzedowskiana Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003
Photo by © Jaen Guzman
Type drawing by © R Solano 2002
MID 
Common Name Redowski's Encyclia [Mexican Botanist current]
Flower Size .88 to 1" [2.2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico Mexico on savannahs of quartz sands and granite boulders at the border of riparian, subdeciduous forests at sea level to 1050 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with aggregate, conic-ovoid, somewhat globose pseudobulbs carrying 2, coriaceous-fleshy, ligulate, arcuate, acute, conduplicate into the base leaves that blooms in the mid winter through spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle, 1 bracted, 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm ] long, paniculate, 2 to 3 branched, 12 to 26" [30 to 65 cm] long, successively 17 flowered inflorescence with cucullate-amplexicaul, widely ovate, obtuse scarious, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
" Encyclia rzedowskiana can be separated from its allies by its green-yellowish tepals longitudinally speckled with brownish-purple, ovate, pleated midlobe of the lip, which is minutely apiculate, conduplicate and deflexed, and separated from the lateral lobes by obscure sinuses. It has been confused in the past with Encyclia meliosma E. meliosma and Encyclia spatella . Encyclia meliosma is found in the Río Balsas Basin, it has pale, dull brown tepals, veined with brownish, but not speckled, yellowish, apiculate, acute to acuminate, more broader and pleated, reduplicate lip, and a strong honey fragrance. On the other hand, the type of E. spatella, described from an unstated locality with relatively small flowers, very narrowed petals at the base, and a heavily marked, transversely elliptic to suborbicular lip this species is common in the coastal ranges of Jalisco at somewhat higher elevations. Encyclia oestlundii has smaller flowers, a more pointed lip, usually lined with bright magenta, and the lateral lobes are separated from the midlobe by neat sinuses." Hagsater & Soto 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 565 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005
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