~Encyclia spondiadum ( Rchb.f. ) Dressler 1971 - See Anacheilium spondiadum ( Rchb.f. )ex Nir Withner & P.A.Harding 2004; Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding>

THROUGH EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Plum Tree Encyclia [refers to the flowers color]

Flower Size 2 1/4" [5.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Panama at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric to narrowly ovoid psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical leaf and blooms on a terminal, few [3 to 4] flowered inflorescence occuring in the fall through spring with non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Neo-Urbania adendrobium; Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum spondianum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum spondianum;

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