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Orchid Species: Encyclia cochleata

Kew currently accepted name is Prosthechea cochleata

Encyclia cochleata is an orchid species identified by (L.) Dressler in 1961. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Prosthechea cochleata.
Genus
Encyclia (E.)
Grex
cochleata
Parents
Species
Author
(L.) Dressler
Year
1961
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ORIGIN: They originate from Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Leewards, Puerto Rica, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia as a medium sized epiphyte found in dense tropical evergreen, deciduous and oak forests at altitudes up to 1900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: The 'cockleshell orchid' has upside down flowers with smooth, ovoid to oblong-elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricate, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3, apical, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below, basally clasping leaves and can bloom for 6 months starting in the spring with an apical, erect, short to 15 [to 37.5 cm], few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a basal sheath that has successive opening, non-fragrant flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: To 3 1/2 inches [to 8.75 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Prosthechea Psh cochleata 1998 (L.) W.E.Higgins
Add+ Anacheilium Ahl cochleatum 1933 </i><i> triandrum</i> (Ames) Small
Add+ Encyclia E lancifolia 1971 (Pav. ex Lindl.) Dressler & G.E.Pollard
Add+ Epidendrum Epi lancifolium 1831 Pav. ex Lindl.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi triandrum 1906 (Ames) House
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Psh. cochleata 'Rita' (2 awards in 2017) Psh. cochleata 'Perfect Balance' (2 awards from 2013 to 2015) Psh. cochleata 'Steve Kelepecz' (2 awards from 2008 to 2013) Psh. cochleata 'H&R' (2 awards in 2006) E. cochleata 'Peggy-Sue' (2 awards in 2000) Psh. cochleata h.f. alba 'Aloha Aina' (2018) Psh. cochleata 'Ica' (2018) Psh. cochleata h.f. alba 'Rogan's Gold' (2018) Psh. cochleata 'Green Giant' (2017) Psh. cochleata 'Amy' (2016) Psh. cochleata 'WingDreams' (2016) Psh. cochleata 'Jenny' (2015) Psh. cochleata 'D & B' (2013) Psh. cochleata 'A-doribil' (2012) Psh. cochleata 'Paraiso' (2011) Psh. cochleata 'Connor Ford Chauvin' (2008) Psh. cochleata 'Mary' (2007) Psh. cochleata 'Anada' (2007) Psh. cochleata 'Hihimanu' (2007) E. cochleata 'Memoria Louise Burchett' (2005)
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