Encyclia venosa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey

Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name The Veined Encyclia

A Mexican, small to medium sized, epiphytic species from the west coast found at 100-2500 feet in pine oak forest, occasionally on rocks, with ellipsoid to fusiform, widely spaced pseudobulbs carrying2 to 3, apical, narrowly elliptic-oblong to elliptic-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring with an apical, few flowered, 4 3/4" [to 12 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is as long or a bit longer than the leaves and all arising from an immature psuedobulb.

SynonymsEncyclia wendlandiana (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918; Epidendrum ensicaulon A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; *Epidendrum venosum Lindl. 1831; Epidendrum wendlandianum Kraenzl. 1893