Encyclia caximboensis L.C.Menezes 1992 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Vitorino Paiva Castro Neto

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Common Name The Caiximbo Encyclia [Region of NE Brazil]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Para' State in NE Brazil growing on rocks at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing lithophyte with conical, basally rounded pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by deciduous, imbricating sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, erect, coriaceous, smooth, narrowly lanceolate, cymbidiform leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, 20 to 30" [50 to 75 cm] long, rarely lateral branched, to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate stem-clasping bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Castro 2006

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