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Orchid Species: Encyclia cyperifolia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Encyclia cyperifolia is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez in 1993.
ORIGIN: Found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru as a small to medium sized, pendant, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests that occurs at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small to medium sized, pendant, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests that occurs at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters with ovoid-pyriform, [leek-like] lightly sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several basal, scarious sheaths and carries 3 to 4, narrowly linear, acuminate, coriaceous, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late summer and early fall on an apical, erect, 12 to 20 [30 to 50 cm] long, pebbley, racemose or few branched, loosely few to several [15] flowered, paniculate inflorescence with small tubular, scarious bracts and carrying a few [4 to 5] flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/2 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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