Encyclia fimbriata C.A.Bastos, Van den Berg & Meneguzzo 2012 Drawing by © C.A.Bastos, Van den Berg & Meneguzzo

Part Sun Warm LATE Summer

Common Name The Fringed Encyclia [refers to the lip apex]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Bahia Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations of 850 to 990 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, clustered, elongate, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by evanescent, scarious sheaths and carrying 3, narrowly lanceolate leaves that blooms in the summer on 1 to 2, terminal, erect, weakly branched, peduncle to 21.6" [to 54 cm] long, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, to 7 flowered inflorescence with deltoid floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Phytotaxa 40:26-40 C.A.Bastos, Van den Berg & Meneguzzo 2012 drawing fide

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