Encyclia peraltensis (Ames) Dressler 1997
Photos by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of The Epidendra Website CR
Photo by © Glen Ladnier
Drawing by © Oakes Ames
Common Name The Peralta Encyclia [An Area of Costa Rica]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with squat, pear shaped pseudobulbs carrying 3, ligulate, coriaceous, comparitvely wide, gradually narrowing below into the obtuse apex leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, peduncle to 5.2" [13 cm] long, rachis to 10.2" [27 cm] long, paniculate, alternating short, each .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long, branches carrying 3 to 7 flowers each, non-verrucose, many flowered inflorescence with rigid, shorter than the pedicel, subacute floral bracts.
"Related to E ceratistes from which it differs in the denser, shortly branched inflorescence." Ames 1923
Often cited as a synonym of E gravida but differs in the smooth inflorescence and ovaries. E gravida has verrucose inflorescence and ovaries.
Synonyms *Epidendrum peraltense Ames 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Schedul. Orchid. 4: 46 Ames 1923 as Epidendrum peratensis
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #5 1970 as Epidendrum peraltense drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #8 1970 as as Epidendrum peratnesis drawing/photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo umm no;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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