Encyclia abbreviata (Schltr.) Dressler 1961 Photo courtesy of Marc Flandres and His Orchid Home Page in France

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Common Name The Abreviated Encyclia [refers to the Short Inflorescence]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [22.5 mm]

Found from Mexico south to Peru as a small sized, hot to warm growing, cockleshell epiphyte occuring at 100 to 1400 meters in elevation in wet tropical evergreen forests with fusiform, lightly compressed paeudobulbs carrying 2 ligulate, obliquely emarginate, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a 3/4" [1.5 cm]long, apical, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with the non-resupinate flowers held close to the apex of a mature psuedobulb. This species is similar to Encyclia calamria but differs in being larger in plant and flower size.

Synonyms Anacheilium abbreviatum [Schlechter] Withner and Harding 2004; *Epidendrum abbreviatum Schltr. 1906; Epidendrum prorepens Ames 1923; Prosthechea abbreviata (Schltr.) W. E. Higgins 1997

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