Encyclia suaveolens Dressler 1971
Photo by © Eduardo A. Perez Garcia
Photo by © Robert Weyman Bussey
Drawing by © Gerardo A Salazar
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Common Name The Sweet-Smelling Encyclia
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Nayarit and Jalisco states of western Mexico in oak forests of the Pacific coast at elevations from 750 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to subglobose pseudobulbs subtended by scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into conduplicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, arising from a newly forming pseudobulb, slightly longer than the leaves, 4" [10 cm] long, simple or few branched, 3 to 12 flowered inflorescence carrying 3 to 12 showy flowers that have a citrus fragrance.
Recognized by the short inflorescnece arising from the immature new growth, the fleshy rather fragrant flowers with green tepals that are heavily suffused with reddish brown and the lip white to pale pink. It is similar to E selligera but it has large branched inflorescence, more slender petals towards the base and a more prominent callus. It is similar to E cordigera but is has larger flowers and a disproportianally large, suborbicular midlobe of the lip." Hagasater & Salazar 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #9 1970 as Epidendrum suaveolens drawing fide;
* Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México, Bot. 39: 117 Dressler 1968 publ. 1971;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo/drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 1 Plate 23 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
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