Encyclia tuerckheimii Schltr. 1918
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TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Epidendra Website
Drawing by © M. López-Rosas/Hagsater etal 2002
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Common Name Tuerckheim's Encyclia [German Orchid Collector in the Antilles and Central America 1900's]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found from Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala in very wet, cool to cold pine oak forests, montane rainforest, elfin forests and evergreen cloud forests at elevations around 1400 to 2300 meters as a rare, medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphytic orchid with clustered, conic-ovoid to pyriform subglobose, longitudinally wrinkled pseudobulbs enveloped partially basally by several scarious sheaths that disappear with age and carrying 2 to 3, apical, long linear-ligulate, subacute to obtuse, green suffused with purple, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, terminal, simple to few branched, few to several flowered inflorescence with deltoid-cucullate, apiculate, scarious, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying resupinate, fleshy, very fragrant [tangerines] flowers.
"The species is recognized by the warty-spiny ovary, the mid-lobe of the lip is relatively small, narrow, and pointed, an elongate isthmus, and the high callus divided in three keels. Encyclia tuerckheimii is apparently related to E. lorata and E. adenocaula, with which it shares the mesophytic, highland habitats, strongly warty inflorescences and ovaries.
This species grows cooler and wetter conditions than most other Encyclia.
Synonyms Epidendrum tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf.,1935
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 410 Schlechter 1918
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 75 Ames 1935 as Epidendrum tuerkheimii;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum tuerkheimii;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum tuerkheimii;
Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correll 1952 as Epidendrum tuerkheimii;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #6 1970 as Epidendrum tuerkheimii drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama Dressler 1993;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol V 130 pl 78 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 568 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing 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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