Encyclia selligera (Bateman ex Lindl.) Schltr. 1914 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Saddle-lipped Encyclia

Flower Size to 1 1/2" [to 3.75 cm]

A medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species that occurs in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Bahamas [growing on small trees and on the limestone rocks below] at altitudes of 0 to 2200 meters in oak and pine-oak forests high up on the trunks or higher branches of trees with clustered, conical-ovoid to pyriform pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2, towards the apex, ligulate or elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, gradually tapering below into the conduplicate clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, apical, large, to 3' [90 cm] long, branched, verrucose, loosely many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured psudobulb occuring with showy, long-lived, fragrant flowers. Chiapas Mx., 1890m elev., near Teopisca, epiphytic on oaks.

Synonyms *Epidendrum selligerum Bateman ex Lindl.1838; Epidendrum violodora Galeotti ex Lindl. 1853;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1890 as Epidendrum selligerum drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Epidendrum selligerum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum selligerum; The Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correll 1952; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974; Las Orquedias de El Salvador vol 1 Hamer 1982; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 698 Dodson 1982; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol IV Withner 1996; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 566 Hagsater, Soto 2002

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