Encyclia tampensis [Lindl.] Small 1913
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Encyclia tampensis var alba Small
Photo by © Jay Pfahl.
Photo by © E Schnurr
Drawing by © Ames
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Common Name Florida Butterfly Orchid or Tampa Encyclia
Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]
Found Florida and the the Bahamas at elevations found at elevations of sealevel to 25 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with crowded, terete, elliptic to ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, spreading, coriaceous, rigid, linear-lanceolate, acute to subacute. straight to slightly twisted, recurveds, leaves that blooms in the later spring on an apical, with scattered warts to smoothish, longer than the leaves, to 30" [75 cm], simple or paniculate, few to many flowered inflorescence with closely adpressed, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying a fragrant flowers with a sweet honey scent.
Similar to the Cuban Encyclia fucata in its variability in vegetative and floral size
Easy to attach to palm trees and pines in south Florida and does not need any attention in the way of water or fertilizer.
In the Florida Keys, native plants can bloom in June through August and again in September on a robust plant.
Synonyms Encyclia tampensis f. albolabia P.M.Br. 1995; *Epidendrum tampense Lindley 1847; Epidendrum tampense var. albolabium A.D.Hawkes 1950
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 33: t. 35 Lindley 1847 as Epidendrum tampense;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1: 29 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum tampense
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1: 29 Ames 1905 as Epidendrum tampense drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum tampense;
Lloydia 13: 164 A D Hawkes 1950 as Epidendrum tampense f albolabium;
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 4 1964 photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum tampense;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 as Epidendrum tampense;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967 as Epidendrum tampese drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 9 1969 as Epidendrum tampense photo fide;
The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 drawing/photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 11 1980 as Epidendrum tampense photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 5 1981 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 8 1985 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 60 #6 1991 as E tampensis fma albolabia photo fide;
A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine and Anderson 1991 photo fide;
Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin Vol 47 No 2 1992 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 64 #9 1995 drawing fide;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 132 P M Brown 1995 as E tampense f albolabia
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 5 1996 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 60 No 1 1996 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 as E tampensis var alba photo fide;
Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 1 1999 photo;
AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 7 1999 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 71 # 4 2002 photo fide;
Botanicas Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 5 2003 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #10 2007 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Le Petit Larousse des Orquidees Lecoufle, Bartholemy and Scmidtt 2013;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #6 2014 photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as an excluded species;
Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #3 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 as E tampense var alba photo fide;
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