Encyclia × carbonitensis Campacci 2008 Drawing by © Campacci

Common Name The Carbonita Encyclia [A town in the state of Minas Gerais]

Flower Size 1.4" [3.2 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a natural hybrid between Encyclia kundergraberi × Encyclia patens at elevations around 600 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped by evanescent sheaths and carrying 2, apical, rigid, coriaceous, linear, acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Coleteana de Orquideas Brasilieras Novas Especias 6 Campacci etal 2008 drawing/photo fide

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