Encyclia bahamensis (Griseb.) 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 ovoid-oblong, 10 cm. long or less. Leaves 1-3, coriaceous, linear, blunt or acutish, 1.5-5 dm. long; 1-3.5 cm. wide; scape usually muchbranched, paniculately many-flowered, 5-9 dm. long; pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long; sepals oblong, 7-nerved, obtuse or obtusish, 15-19 mm. long; petals obtuse, oblong or spatulate-oblong, narrowed toward the base, about as long as the sepals; lip sessile or nearly so, deeply 3-lobed, 16-19 mm. long, its lateral lobes triangular-ovate, much shorter than the orbicular-obovate, rounded or retuse, nearly sessile, middle one; column narrowly winged to the base; capsule oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long.
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Distribution
On trees, Great Bahama, Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera, Ship Channel Cay, Crooked Island, Little Inagua and Inagua. An Andros specimen was referred to Epidendrum odoratissimum Lindl., by Mrs. Northrop. Bahama Encyclia.
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