Encyclia incumbens (Lindl.) Mabb 1984
Photo by © ROMAN MARUSKA
Photo by © Robert Weyman Bussey
Drawing by © R. Peláez and Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 559 Hagsater, Soto 2002
Common Name Incumbent or Aromatic Encyclia
Flower Size to 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador in pine-oak and oak forests at elevations of 750 to 2100 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with conical to subspheric, clustered pseudobulbs that are often dark purple brown carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear-ligulate or elliptic-ligulate, acute or obtuse leaves and blooms in the spring on an apical, to almost 3' [90 cm] long, erect to gently arching paniculate, many flowered inflorescence carrying close set, fragrant [not so good] flowers that can be highly variable in color.
"This handsome species can be recognized by the paniculate inflorescence usually bearing many flowers. The petals and column are arcuate, the latter somewhat sigmoid in profile. It is closely related to Encyclia candollei (Lindl.) Schltr. from eastern Mexico, with narrower, smaller, segments, the lip less definitely 3-lobed, tubular, with porrect lateral lobes, and lacking the minutely warty veins of the midlobe. This species is widely known as Encyclia aromatica (Bateman) Schltr., but this name is based on Epidendrum aromaticum Bateman, which was illegitime at the time of its publication because it was anteceded by E. aromaticum (Sw. ) J.Parm." Miguel Soto 2002
Synonyms Encyclia aromatica (Bateman) Schltr. 1914; Epidendrum aromaticum Bateman 1838; *Epidendrum incumbens Lindl. 1840; Epidendrum primuloides hort. ex Stein; Vanilla aromatica Sw. 1799
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26(Misc.): 45 Lindley 1840 as Epidendrum incumbens;
Orchid. Mexico Guatemala: t. 10 Bateman 1838 as Epidendrum aromaticum nom. illeg.
Orchid. Mexico Guatemala: t. 10 Bateman 1838 as Epidendrum aromaticum nom. illeg. drawing fide;
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 as Epidendrum aromaticum
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 as Epidendrum aromaticum drawing fide;
Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht.: 208 Schlechter 1914 as Encyclia aromaticum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Encyclia aromatica;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Epidendrum aromaticum drawing good;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum aromaticum;
Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correll 1952;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum aromaticum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Epidendrum aromaticum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum aromaticum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum aromaticum;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #3 1970 as Epidendrum aromaticum drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 34 #4 1970 as Epidendrum aromaticum photo/drawing fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 1 172-3 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum aromaticum drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 as E aromaticum photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum aromaticum drawing fide;
*Taxon 33: 442 Mabb. 1984
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as E aromatica drawing fide;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 as E aromatica;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 559 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005;
Selbyana 30: 76 Higgins 2009 drawing fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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