Encyclia diota (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
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Common Name Two-eared Encyclia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from Mexico to Nicaragua as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial which occurs at elevations of 200 to 1800 meters in warm pine-oak, and tropical deciduous forest with conical, ovoid, wrinkled pseudobulbs with 1 or 2 linear-liguate, keeled leaves which blooms mostly in the spring on an apical, 12 to 40" [30 to 100cm] long, minutely verrucose, raceme or panicle arising on a mature pseudobulb and is much longer than the leaves with many [10 to 80], showy, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia diota ssps diota Dressler & Pollard 1974; Encyclia insidiosa (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; *Epidendrum diotum Lindl. 1843; Epidendrum insidiosum Rchb. f. 1876
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 18 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 689 Dodson 1982; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E insidiosa
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~Encyclia diota subsp. diota Nagel
Oaxaca Mx., 1300m elev., South of Oaxaca (city) on road to Isthmus, Epiphytic on oaks.
Encyclia diota (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 var rubra
