Encyclia sceptra (Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986 Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal

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Common Name The Sceptre-Like Encyclia [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size 1" and slightly more [2.5+ cm]

This epiphytic and occasional lithophytic species with thin, compressed psuedobulbs occurs in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 150 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with slender, cyclindrical, compressed psuedobulbs enveloped basally by several scarious tubular sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect or arching, to 2' [60 cm] long, many flowered, cylindrical shaped inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with scented, non-resupinate flowers held well above the leaves.

Synonyms Anacheilium sceptrum [Lindl.]Hagaster 1990; Epidendrum macrothyrsoides Rchb. f. 1877; *Epidendrum sceptrum Lindl. 1846; Epidendrum sphenoglossum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Prosthechea sceptra (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997