Encyclia steinbachii Schltr. 1922
Photo by © Dario Melgar.
Drawing by © Dodson & Vasquez 1989 .
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Common Name Steinbach's Encyclia [German Collector in Bolivia 1900's]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.6cm]
Found in Santa Cruz department of Bolivia on rocks in open places at elevations around 450 meters as a medium sized, hot growing, rupicolus orchid and has ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, rigid, linear clear green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer in cultivation in the northern hemisphere on a nodding, 10" [20 cm] long, paniculate, each branch carrying 2 to 3 flowers, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence.
Characterized by the clear green flowers with purple markings on the lateral lobes of the lip, the oblong lateral lobes, the column with auricles and the pustulate ovary
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 47 Schlechter 1922;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0323 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 photo fide
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