Encyclia microbulbon (Hook.) Schltr. 1918
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Common Name Small-bulbed Encyclia
Flower Size 2/3" [1.6 cm]
Found in Jalisco, Mexico, Puebla, Morelos, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Michoacan states of Mexico in seasonally, very dry oak forests or in moist pine-oak forests at elevations of 1400 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphytic species. The numerous, clustered, 3 noded, bronze-colored, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs are round to conic-ovoid and enveloped by papery bracts basally and carrying 1 to 2, linear to linear-ligulate, acute to obtuse, apiculate, basally conduplicate, sulcate and caniculate above, coriaceous-fleshy, rigid leaves that blooms in the late winter through spring on a terminal, erect, often branched, terete, purple, 4.4" to 18" [11 to 45 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul, triangular-ovate, obtuse, mucronate, membraneous-papery floral bracts and carrying fragrant [when sunning] flowers.
"This small Encyclia is one of the most distinct spedes in the genus, with flowers with narrow segments and a whitish lip lacking a callus but bearing papillae or scales on the midlobe surface. The small lateral lobes of the lip are inrolled at the apex. It is somewhat similar to Encyclia bractescens (Lindl.) Hoehne, a lowland spedes with chestnut, sharply pointed tepals and a lilac lip. However, its closest relative is Encyclia ovulum (Lindl.) Schltr., [Now considered to be synomonous] which replaces it in the Sierra Madre Occidental, and has been traditionally submerged in its synonymy. Encyclia ovulum is even smaller, the pseudobulbs usually single-Ieaved, and the pendent flowers smaller." E. Hágsater & M . Soto 2008
Synonyms Encyclia ovulum [Lindley]Schlechter 1918 ; Encyclia sisyrinchiifolia (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1918; *Epidendrum microbulbon Hook. 1841; Epidendrum ovulum Lindl. 1843; Epidendrum sisyrinchiifolium A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 347 Hook. 1841 as Epidendrum microbulbon;
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 347 Hook. 1841 as Epidendrum microbulbon drawing fide;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29(Misc.): 55 Lindley 1843 as Epidendrum ovulum;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 19 A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum sisyrinchiifolium
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 472 Schlechter 1918;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 473 Schlechter 1918 as E ovulum;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 474 Schlechter 1918 as E sisyrinchiifolia;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum microbulbon;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #6 1970 as Epidendrum microbiulbon drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & pollard 1976 photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Miniature Orchids Northern 1980;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;
A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine and Anderson 1991 photo fide;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 as E ovulum;
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1021 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1022 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as E ovulum drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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