Encyclia sagrana (A.Rich.) Soto Calvo, Esperon & Sauleda 2018
Photos by © Soto Calvo/Type Drawing by A Richard
Common Name Sagra's Encyclia [Ramon de la Sagra 1798 to 1871 Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist]
Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Isla de Juventud province of Cuba in semi-deciduous forest, evergreen swamp forest or coastal scrubland mixed with mangrove elements at elevations near sea level as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious, deciduous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly oblong, coriaceous, obtuse apically leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, paniculate, 16" [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to E oxypetala but differs in the single leaf that is shorter and narrower, the spathulate sepals somewhat acute at the apex, the white lip with purple veins and the midlobe of the lip
"E sagrana has a flowering season distinct from all other small, yellow flowered Cuban Encyclias described. Encyclia fucata, E. oxypetala, E. richardiana and E. hircina flower from spring to summer.
Synonyms *Epidendrum sagranum A.Rich. 1850
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 235 A Rich. 1850 as Epidendrum sagranum;
* New World Orchid. Nomencl. Notes 31: 3 Soto Calvo, Esperon & Sauleda 2018 photos fide;
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