Encyclia tigrina (Linden ex Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name or Meaning The Tiger Encyclia [refers to the spotted flowers]

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and the Guianas at elevations of 2100 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial occuring in deep forests with elongate, tall and slender, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4 lanceolate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, few to many flowered, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with fleshy flowers occuring in the summer, fall and winter. This species and E pamplonense are often said to be synonyms but, this species has a rounded lip and E pamplonense has a square notched lip, thereby separating them as individual species.

Synonyms Anacheilium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004; Aulizeum tigrinum Lindl. ex Stein 1892; *Epidendrum tigrinum Linden Ex Lindley 1846; Hormidium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindley] Brieger 1977; Prosthechea tigrina [Linden Ex Lindley] Higgins 1997

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