Encyclia ionosma (Lindl.) Schltr. 1914
Photo by © John Denson
Photo courtesy of Mario Rosim
Drawing by © A Krol/Szlach etal 2014
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Common Name Violet-scented Encyclia
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.25 cm]
Found in Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil as a miiniature to small sized, hot growing, epiphyte with subglobose pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, coriaceous, rigid, oblong-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, densly many [4 to 10] flowered inflorescence with violet scented flowers.
Some sources say E flabelifera is synomonous with this determination others E euosma and still others [Kew] cite all three as valid so I have kept them separate for now. They do all seem fairly similar.
Synonyms *Epidendrum ionosmum Lindl. 1838
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 49 Lindley 1838 as Epidendrum ionosmum;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum ionosmum;
*Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht.: 209 Schlechter 1914;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum ionosmum;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo/drawing good;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras 1 Encyclias Campacci 2003;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2014 drawing good;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as an excluded species;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:436 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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