Encyclia widgrenii (Lindl.) Pabst 1976 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name Widgren's Encyclia [Swedish Plant Collector in Brazil early 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais, Brazil at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves that blooms on a terminal, 2 to 4 3/4" [5 to 12 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few [6 to 8], non-resupinate flowers occuring at any time of the year. This species can be confused with E papilio but E widgrenii has reflexed petals and a flower that is twice the size of the former..

Synonyms Anaceilium widgrenii [Lindl.] Pabst, Moutinho & Pinto 1981 ; *Epidendrum widgrenii Lindl. 1853; Hormidium widgrenii [Lindl.] Brieger 1961; Prosthechea widgrenii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins 1997