Encyclia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Epiphytic or rarely terrestrial orchids, with mostly terete, short or elongsted pseudobulbs, flat, mostly stiff, elongated narrow leaves duplicate in the bud, and rather large, racemose or panieled bracted flowers on a long terminal scape. Lateral sepals broad or narrow, about as wide as the similar median one; petals spatulate to linear. Lip longitudinaly crested or appendaged, 3-lobed, the middle lobe much wider than the lateral ones, often emarginate. Column usually adnate to the lip at its base and sometimes enclosed by it. Capsules ribbed. [Greek, wrapped around.] Perhaps 75 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Encyclia viridiflora Hook. These orchids are locally called Wild Indian.