Side View of Flower Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo by © Rick Cirino

Common Name Madero's Encyclia [Colombian, original collector of species 1900's]]

Flower Size 1.55" [3.8 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia at elevations around 1000 meters in well exposed locations on trees as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, linear, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 12 to 24" " [30 to 60 cm] long, paniculate, several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Epidendrum bacigalupianum A.D.Hawkes 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920;The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 photo fide;

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