
Encyclia profusa [Rolfe] Dressler and Pollard 1971 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Common Name Profuse Encyclia
Flower Size1 1/4" [3.1 cm]
Found in Colombia as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with two leaves that blooms on a 18" [45 cm] long many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers.
Synonyms *Epidendrum profusum Rolfe 1914; Epidendrum oncidioides var profusum [Rolfe] Ames 1935; Encyclia oncidioides var profusa 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 Photo fide
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