Encyclia fucata (Lindl.) Britton & Millsp.
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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
Species Description - Pseudobulbs slender, ovoid to oblong, 2-5 cm. long. Leaves 1 or 2, linear, 1-3 dm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide; scape slender, usually branched, 3-7 dm. long; pedicels slender or filiform, 1-2 cm. long; sepals yellow or brownish yellow, oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-2 cm. long; petals oblanceolate, imilar to the sepals but a little shorter; lip yellow, 3-lobed, the lateral lobess oblong, obtuse, about 1 cm. long, the middle lobe suborbicular, tipped; column wingless; capsule oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. long.
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Discussion
A fruiting specimen from Abaco, probably of this species, was determined by R. A. Rolfe as E. primulinum Batem, of Mexico, and recorded under that name in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4 : 116.
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Distribution
On trees in coppices and scrub-lands. Abaco, Great Bahama, and Andros : Cuba ; recorded from Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Small-flowered Encyclia.
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