Encyclia trachycarpa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918
Photo by © Ricardo Ayala and his Flickr Orchid Website
Photo by © Robert Weyman Bussey
Drawing by © Dressler 1964
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Common Name Rough-Fruited Encyclia
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found only in Jalisco and Colima states of Mexico and Guatemala? in tropical deciduous forests and hot dry lowlands as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on trees and cacti, occuring at sealevel to 1300 meters with clustered, elongate, conic-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by evanescent sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, striate nerved, ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, slender, simple to few branched, 11.2 to 14" [28 to 35 cm] long, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying fleshy flowers.
"The prominent callus and large middle lobe in combination with the conspicuously smaller lateral lobes give the flowers of E trachycarpa an aspect that is unusual in the genus." Ames 1923
It is normal for the flowers of this species to turn black with drying and age.
Synonyms Encyclia adenocarpon subsp. trachycarpa (Lindl.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971; *Epidendrum trachycarpum Lindl. 1846
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Voy. Sulphur: 172 Lindley 1846 as Epidendrum trachycarpum;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 474 Schlechter 1918;
Schedulae Orchidianae 4: 50 Ames 1923 as Epidendrum trachycarpum;
Schedulae Orchidianae 4: 50 Ames 1923 as Epidendrum trachycarpum drawing fide;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum trachycarpum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 7 1964 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #6 1970 as Epidendrum trachycarpum photo fide;
Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & G E Pollard 1971 as E adenocarpos subsp trachycarpa
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum trachycarpum drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Correll 1985 as Epidendrum trachycarpum drawing good;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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