Encyclia aenicta Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Bronze Encyclia
Flower Size 1" to 1 5/8" [2.5 to 4cm]
Nayarit Mx., 900m elev., West slope of Sierra near Riolleto, epiphytic on Oaks
Found from Central Mexico south to Nicaragua as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte that is related to E. diota and E. meliosma and occurs at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters in oak-pine and oak forests with clustered, conic-ovoid, to rounded pseudobulb carrying 1 to 3, apical, very stiff, acute to obtuse, gradually narrows below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an apical, 10" [25 cm] to 40" [1m] long, branched, many flowered inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985
Encyclia aenicta Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 v. leucoglossa