Encyclia calderoniae Soto Arenas 2003 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

Common Name Calderon's Encyclia [Mexican Botanist Current]

Flower Size 3/4" to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in dry oak forests, and humid pine/oak forests on trees or on granite boulders as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with conic-ovoid to subspheric pseudobulbs enveloped partially in youth by thin, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, rarely a second, coriaceous- fleshy, ensiform to oblong-ligulate, obtuse, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the late spring on a terminal , few branched paniculate, 10 to 40 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb. This species is similar to E candollei but is found on the Pacific coast, is a smaller plant mostly with one leaf per pseudobulb, has les conspicuous arcuate column and petals and the lateral lobes are not porrect and overlapping but embracing the column and slightly reflexed at the apices and the flowers usually exhibit rich chestneu to chocolate brown sepals and a pale yellow lip lines with purple.

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References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] *Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 plate 558 Hagsater & Salazar 2002

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