!Encyclia viridiflora Hooker 1828 TYPE FOR THE GENUS

Drawing by Hooker

Drawing of flower

Drawing by Carl Withner

Common Name The Green-Flowered Encyclia

Flower Size

Found In the Rio de Janiero state of Brazil with pumpkin-shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, leathery, narrow, linear-oblong, carinate beneath, acute to acuminate, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms on an erect, paniculate, 6 to 8 flowered per branch, many flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

Only known officially from the herbarium specimen housed in the Lindley Herbarium at Kew Gardens.

Kew now puts E marxiana as a synonym of this species. I dont see it. Hooker shows an acute apex to the lip midlobe . Withner's drawing is from a TYPE flower provided by Kew and shows this, but E marxiana is indented apically and the flower is not green!. SO I have left them separate for now.

Synonyms Epidendrum viridiflorum (Hook.) Lindl. 1842

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bot. Mag. 55: t. 2831 Hooker 1828;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 30 Lindley 1842 as Epidendrum viridiflorum;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 7 1980 drawing fide;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume IV Withner 1996 drawing fide;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume VI Withner 2000

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