Encyclia withneri (Sauleda) Sauleda & R.M. Adams 1981
Photo by © Gene Schurg.
TYPE Drawing by © Ruben Sauleda
Common Name Withner's Encyclia [American Botanist died 2012]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found only on Andros Island in the Bahamas at elevations below 50 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte occuring in high coppice habitats with a short, stout, creeping rhizome giving rise to crowded, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, suberect, coriaceous, rigid, linear-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, distally several sheathed peduncle, rachis paniculate, spreading branched, to 6 to 8.32" [12 to 28 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with minute, ovate-triangular, obtuse to acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Closely allied to Encyclia tampensis but differs in having the basal 1/2 of the claw adnate to the column. Midlobe of the lip is bilobed with five radiating, undulate lamellae. The disc at the junction of the lobes has a fleshy 3 dentate plate. Lateral dents are decurrent in erect keels with 2 additional ridges on each side. The keels and ridges termionate at the claw. The apex of the lateral lobes is recurved." Sauleda 1977
Synonyms *Epidendrum withneri Sauleda 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 46: 34 Sauleda 1977 as Epidendrum withneri
* Brittonia 33: 187 Sauleda and R M Adams 1981
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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