Encyclia livida [Lindley] Dressler 1961 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name the Bluish Encyclia
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
A smaller sized, mat forming epiphytic species found on cacti, trees and rocks in sunny locations within humid, seasonally dry forests from Mexico to Peru and Venezuela at elevations from sealevel to 1600 meters with ellipsoid, lightly complanate, bifoliate pseudobulbs with oblong-ellptic, attenuate to conduplicate into the petilate base, acute to minutely bilobed, thin leaves that flowers throughout the year but mostly in the late fall and winter, on an apical, 1.5 to 4 1/2" [4 to 11 cm] long, few [3 to 7] flowered inflorescence, arising on a mature psuedobulb, that is shorter than the leaves and has flowers that do not open very well.
Synonyms Anacheilium lividum (Lindl.) C. Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981; Encyclia deamii [Schlechter]Hoechne 1952; Encyclia tessaelata Schlechter 1918; Encyclia tessellata Schlechter 1918; Epidendrum articulatum Klotsch 1838; Epidendrum condylochilum Lehm. & Kraenzel 1899; Epidendrum dasytainia Schlechter 1921; Epidendrum deamii Schlechter 1918; Epidendrum henricii Schlechter 1906; *Epidendrum lividum Lindl. 1838; Epidendrum tesselatum Batem ex Lindley 1838; Pollardia livida [Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004; Prosthechea livida (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997
