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Encyclia brachycolumna is an orchid species identified by (L.O.Williams) Dressler in 1961. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Hagsatera brachycolumna.
ORIGIN: Found in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Mexico states of Mexico in windy, open, oak forests at elevations of 1400 to 1950 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Creeping, medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to narrowly conical-fusiform, slightly compressed, purple-maroon pseudobulbs arising when mature from a node just below the swollen part of the pseuedobulb and carrying a single, apical, suberect-arcuate, coriaceous, linear to lanceolate, obtuse, dull green leaf that gives rise to an axillary, racemose, 3/4 to 7/8 [2 to 2.2 cm] long, few to several [to 14] flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly forming pseudobulb with triangular, acute bracts and subcampanulate, nutant flowers that smell of old cheese and are clustered towards the apex and occurring most often in the late winter through spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 1.6 inches [3 to 4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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