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Encyclia krugii is an orchid species identified by (Bello) Britton & P.Wilson in 1930. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Psychilis krugii.
ORIGIN: Endemic to Puerto Rico in dry semi-deciduous, thorn-scrub forests at elevations of sea level to 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with elongate, slender-pyriform to cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying to 4, apical, rigid to coriaceous, ligulate to linear-lanceolate, subacute to obtuse, erose dentate rarely entire margined leaves which blooms on a terminal erect, [1.9 meter] long, to 32 successively flowered inflorescence terminating in a bifid or trifid, densly many flowered rachis with the successive opening flowers occurring in the fall through spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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