Encyclia naranjapatensis Dodson 1977 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Rick Cirino

LATE THROUGH

Common Name The Naranjapata Encyclia [A town In Ecuador]

Flower Size 1 1/4” [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador in seasonally dry cloud forests on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with onion-shaped pseuodbulbs, basally enveloped with green then becoming evanescent, sheaths carrying 2 apical, strap-shaped, acute, condulpicate below and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter through summer on a 2’4" [70 cm] long, branching, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant . This species is separated from other Ecuadorian species by it’s wjhite lip and smooth ovary.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 069 Dodson 1980; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002