Encyclia sima Dressler 1969 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Pug-Nosed Encyclia [refers to the columns shape]

Flower Size 2 3/4" [7 cm]

Found in Panama and Colombia at elevations of 600 to 1400 meters in wet montane forests and is a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongate pseudobulbs carrying a sinlge apical lanceolate leaf that blooms in the winter on terminal, erect, 2 1/4" [5.5 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence with very fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Anacheilium simum [Dressler] Withner & Harding 2004; Epidendrum simum (Dressler) P. Taylor 1978; Hormidium simum [Dressler] Brieger 1977; Prosthechea sima (Dressler) W.E. Higgins 1997

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