Encyclia havenensis Oscar Bello, Pablo Esperon and Ruben P. Sauleda 2013
Comparison betweeen E havanensis on the left and E phoenica
Photos/TYPE Drawing by Oscar Bello
Common Name The Havana Encyclia
Flower Size 1.84" [4.6 cm]
Found in western Cuba on isolated tree islands surrounded by mangroves at elevations near sea level as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, clustered, ovate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious, imbricating sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, coriaceous, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle slender, erect, distantly several bracted, paniculate, to 22" [55 cm] long, to 28 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, concave floral bracts.
" E. phoenicea and E. havanensis differ in the length of the lamellae on the midlobe of the labellum. On E. havanensis the lamellae projects beyond the apex of the column. On E. phoenicea the lamellae stop abruptly at the apex of the column. The shape of the disc of the labellum is also distinctly different. On E. havanensis it is orbicular and streaked with purple. On E. phoenicea the disc is usually truncate to cordate, suborbicular or flabellate. In E. phoenicea the center of the disc usually has two thickened and fleshy areas and the lateral margins tend to slightly recurve downward. The center of the disc on E. havanensis is not fleshy" Oscar Bello, Pablo Esperon and Ruben P. Sauleda 2013
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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