Encyclia silverarum Leopardi & Carnevali 2014

LCDP Photo by © Leopardi & Carneval

Part sunHot Warm Spring

Common Name Silvera's Encyclia [Gaspar Silvera and his daughter Katia Panamanian Orchid nursey owners and discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .88 to 1" [2.2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Colon and Panama provinces of Panama in tropical, shady, broad-leaved montane or submontane forest at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered but shortly creeping, ovoid, green and smooth when young, and finely wrinkled when old pseudobulbs when young clothed in white papyraceous, non-persistent sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, narrowly oblong elliptic, thick, rigid, midnerve carinate mainly in the lower half leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle green, smooth, thin but fairly strong, 18 to 24" [45 to 60 cm] long, raceme or panicle, many flowered inflorescence.

"Encyclia silverarum is distinguished from E. peraltensis by its proportionally short and wide lateral lobes. Moreover, flowers are ca. .88" [2.2 cm] across the spread apices of the petals, lateral lobes of the labellum .22 to .24" x .12" [ 0.55?0.60 × 0.30 cm] in E. silverarum and flowers ca. .4" [1.0 cm] across the spread apices of the petals .172 to .22" x .072" [ 0.48?0.55 × 0.18 cm] in E. peraltensis. The smooth pedicellate ovary and rachis of E. silverarum sharply contrast with that of E. peraltensis, where it is conspicuosly warty. Encyclia peraltensis is known from Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. The smooth central lobe of the labellum (provided only with a sharp keel) and the short and wide lateral lobes of the labellum also distinguishes Encyclia silverarum from E. parkeri, a South American species. E chloroleuca differs from E silvarum in the coloration and the aspects visible in the LCDP photo above." Leopardi & Carnevali 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytotaxa 183: 161 Leopardi & Carnevali 2014 Drawing/photo fide;

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