Encyclia × jequitinhonhensis Campacci & Bohnke 2019
Comparison of the species with its parents
Photos by Reginaldo de Vasconcelos Leitao/TYPE Drawing by M A Campacci
Common Name The Jequitinhonha River Encyclia [refers to where the species occurs]
Flower Size 1.76" [4.4 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in fields with large rocks at elevations around 230 meters as a small sized, hot growing, saxicolus, caespitose terrestrial and natural hybrid between Encyclia oncidioides and Encyclia alboxanthina with a inconspicuous rhizome giving rise to green, pyriform, smooth becoming somewhat rugose with age pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by thin sheaths soon evanescent and carrying 2 to 3, erect, rigid, coriaceous, oblong, acute apically, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, arising through an oblong, truncated apcially spathe, provided with acute, amplexicaul bracts, paniculate, to 40" [100 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying flowers that are intermediate in size between the parents.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 15 2019 photo/drawing fide fide
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