Encyclia × verboonenii V.P.Castro & Campacci 2000
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Marcos Campacci
Common Name or Meaning Verboonen's Encyclia [Brazilian Orchid Gardener 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This species is a natural hybrid between E argentinensis and E osmantha.
Found in Rio de Janiero and Minas Gerais states of Brazil in gallery forests at elevations of 400 to 500 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with pyriform-elongate pseduobulbs enveloped in youth by imbricate, deciduous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 32" to 48" [80 to 120 cm] long, paniculate, to 20 flowered inflorescence.
Kew considers this one an unplaced name which often means that there is something illegal in the publication that negates its validity.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquidário 15: 18 V.P.Castro & Campacci 2001 no latin description
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 143 Neto 2006 drawing fide/ photo good
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