Encyclia pollardiana (Withner) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another Angle Photo by © Diederick Antoni Copyright ©
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Common Name Pollard's Encyclia [Mexican Orchid Enthusiast 20th cen]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Mexico in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco and Michoacan at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, large, conic-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, elliptic-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, paniculate, 12 to 24" [30 to 60 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Epidendrum pollardianum Withner 1970
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 34 #4 1970 photo not = E aenicta; The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1974 photo/drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998 photo fide
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