Encyclia diota (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918
Photos by © Sune Holt
Common Name Two-eared Encyclia
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial which occurs at elevations of 200 to 1800 meters in pine-oak, and tropical deciduous forest with conical, ovoid, wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, linear-liguate, keeled leaves that blooms mostly in the spring on an apical, 12 to 40" [30 to 100cm] long, minutely verrucose, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and is much longer than the leaves carrying many [10 to 80], showy, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia diota ssps diota Dressler & Pollard 1974; Encyclia insidiosa (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; *Epidendrum diotum Lindl. 1843; Epidendrum insidiosum Rchb. f. 1876
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 254 Schlechter 1920 as E insidiosa; Orchid Digest Vol 34 #9 1970 as Epidendrum diotum drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum diotum drawing/photo fide; The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum diotum drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 689 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 18 Hagsater and Salazar 1990 drawing ok; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing good; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol VI Withner 2000 as E insidiosa excluded species; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Le Petit Larousse des Orquidees Lecoufle, Bartholemy and Schmidt 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #3 2016 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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~Encyclia diota subsp. diota Nagel
Oaxaca Mx., 1300m elev., South of Oaxaca (city) on road to Isthmus, Epiphytic on oaks.
Encyclia diota (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 var rubra
