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Orchid Species: Encyclia leucantha
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Encyclia leucantha is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1919.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela in dry semi-deciduous forests or on rock lajas at elevations of 50 to 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear, obtuse to subacute leaves that blooms on a terminal, mostly paniculate, erect, laxly few to many flowered, 6.8 to 18.8 [17 to 47 cm] long inflorescence enveloped basally by a few imbricate, scarious bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 1.4 inches [2.5 to 3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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