Encyclia stellata (Lindl.) Schltr. 1914
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Photo by © Rick Cirino
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name The Star-Like Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and western Venezuela in lowland dry or seasonally dry forests with clustered, ovoid to subglobose, smooth, shiny green in youth, irregularily rugose with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by little to no sheaths and carrying, 2, apical, coriaceous, rigid, sharp margined, sulcate midvein, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, arising on a newly matured pseudobulb, short to 9.2" [to 23 cm] long, verruculose, racemose or paniculate inflorescence .
This species is a part of the Encyclia oncidioides complex and most likely is a synonym of it along with, E dickinsoniana , Enc gravida, Enc mooreana, Enc stellata, and Enc guianensis and Enc guatemalensis.
Synonyms Encyclia alanjensis [Ames] Carnevali & Romero 1994; Encyclia hunteriana Schlechter 1922; Encyclia powellii Schlechter 1922; Epidendrum alanjense Ames 1922; *Epidendrum stellatum Lindley 1853;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fol. Orchid. 3: 21 Lindley 1853 as Epidendrum stellatum;
* Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 75 Schlechter 1919;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 254 Schlechter 1920;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 46. Panama Schlechter 1922 as E hunteriana;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 46. Panama Schlechter 1922 as E powellii;
Schedul. Orchid. 1: 13 Ames 1922 as Epidendrum alanjense;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 As Epidendrum stellatum;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #5 1970 as Epdidendrum alanjense drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Epidendrum stellatum drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum stellatum drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 drawing ok;
Lankesteriana 4: 18 Carnevali & G.A.Romero ex Pupulin2002 as Encyclia alanjensis
Lankesteriana 4: 18 Carnevali & G.A.Romero ex Pupulin2002
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:465 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
