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Orchid Species: Encyclia yauaperyensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Encyclia yauaperyensis is an orchid species identified by (Barb.Rodr.) Porto & Brade in 1935.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil and is a unique species in that it is the only South American Encyclia with a triangular midlobe that is also apiculate and ends in a rounded or obtuse point. It is a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte occurring at elevations of 400 to 600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil and is a unique species in that it is the only South American Encyclia with a triangular midlobe that is also apiculate and ends in a rounded or obtuse point. It is a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte occurring at elevations of 400 to 600 meters in subtropical forests with aggregated, lightly rugose, green pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, rigid, slender, subcoriaceous leaves and blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, suberect, paniculate, to 10 [to 25 cm] long, with 2 to 3 bracts and short flower bracts and carries sweetly fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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