Encyclia caicensis Sauleda & R.M.Adams 1978 Photo by © Spencer Woodard and his Anthropogen Website

Common Name The Caicos Encylia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found only in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean on small trees in coastal low scrub and coppices at low elevations as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte and rarely lithophyte on limestone with short, narrow pseudobulbs carrying rigid, shorter, erect leaves that blooms on an erect, paniculate, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant, non-resupinate to resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol IV Withner 1996 drawing/photo fide;

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