Encyclia tarumana Schltr. 1925

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Common Name The Tarumana Encyclia [A town in Amazonas State Brazil]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in northwestern Brazil near the Colombian and Peruvian border in low forests with sandy ground [campinas] at elevations of 50 to 200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with 1"+ spaced, narrowly pear-shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect, narrowly linear, leathery, subacute leaves that blooms in the spring to early summer on a terminal, few branched, 10 to 17 flowered, smooth inflorescence

Similar to and often cited as s synonym of E mapuerae but I have left them separate pending better references.

Synonyms *Epidendrum tarumanum (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 42(2): 106 Schlechter 1925

Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 178 A D Hawkes 1957 as Epidendrum tarumana

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;

Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 074 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing hmm;

Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003 photo ok;

Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2014 drawing/photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:432 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;

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