Encyclia isochila (Rchb. f.) Dod 1986
Photo by © Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillanae
Drawing by © Dunterville & Garay
Common Name Equal-Lipped Encyclia
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Puerto Rico, Hispanola, Cuba and Jamaica in moist broadleaved forests at elevations of 30 to 750 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pear-shaped, smooth, shiny pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, stiff, fleshy, coriaceous, linear, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect-spreading, green, slender, 2 to 10.8" [5 to 27 cm] long peduncle with blond to brown, scarious bracts, racemose or paniculate 4 to 16.4" [10 to 41 cm] long, laxly few [to 6 to 8] flowered inflorescence with small cleistogamous green flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia isochila var. tridens (Rchb.f.) Dod 1986; Epidendrum belvederense Fawc. & Rendl. 1909; Epidendrum belvederense var. brevifolium Cogn. 1909; Encyclia bletioides (Griseb.) 1864; Epidendrum bletioides Griseb. 1864; *Epidendrum isochilum Rchb. f. 1856; Epidendrum isochilum var tridens Rchb.f 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia 4:326 Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum isochilum;
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 615 Griseb. 1864 as Epidendrum bletioides;
Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 3: 277 Rchb.f 1885 as Epidendrum isochilum var tridens;
J. Bot. 47: 123 Fawcett & Rendle 1909 as Epidendrum belvederense
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum isochilum;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum bletioides;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 7: 123 Cogniaux 1909 as Epidendrum belvederense var. brevifolium;
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum bletioides;
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum belvederense drawing hmm;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum sclerocladium drawing ok;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum bradfordii not = E isochila drawing ok;
Moscosoa 4: 193 Dod 1986 as E isochila var tridens;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo capsule only;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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