!Encyclia viridiflora Hooker 1828 TYPE FOR THE GENUS
Drawing by Hooker
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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