Encyclia triangulifera (Rchb. f.) Acuña 1939
Photos by © Ruben Sauleda and his New World Orchidaceae Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Triangular Encyclia
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Pinar Del Rio province of western Cuba in thickets in serpentine regions at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with pyriform, crowded pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying, 2 short, stiff, linear-ligulate, subacute, coriaceous, thick leaves often suffused with red spots from high sun that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an elongate, slender, fractiflex, verrucose, reddish, laxly few [6 to 8] flowered, 16" [40 cm] long, racemose or few branched inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and having a few sheaths
There is a lot of confusion on this species and Encyclia bipapularis as this species has been said to be synomonous with it but I can assure you that they are different.
Synonyms Epidendrum triangulatum Griseb. 1866; *Epidendrum trianguliferum Rchb. f. 1865;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora 48: 277 Rchb.f 1865 as Epidendrum triangulifera;
Cat. Pl. Cub.: 262 Griseb. 1866 as Epidendrum triangulatum;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum trianguliferum;
*Bol. Estaçión Exp. Agron. Santiago de las Vegas 60: 80 Acuña 1939;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as E bipapularis;
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
New World Orchidaceae – Nomenclatural Notes Nomenclatural Note – Issue No. 9 Photos fide
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