Encyclia tampensis (Lindl.) Small
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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 narrowly ovoid, terete, 4-7 cm. long. Leaves 1-3, linear or linear-lanceolate, 0.5-2.5 dm. long, 8-18 mm. wide, acutish or obtuse, rather rigid; scape slender, branched, often 5 dm. long or longer; pedicels rather slender, 7-12 mm. long; lateral sepals yellowish-brown, narrowly oblanceolate, acutish, about 2 cm. long; petals similar to the sepals but somewhat narrower; lip nearly sessile, deeply 3-lobed, white lined with purple, a little shorter than the petals, the middle lobe reniform-orbicular, short-clawed, rounded or apiculate, the lateral lobes oblong, obtuse; column about 8 mm. long, 2-aurieled at the top and narrowly winged.
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Distribution
On trees and shrubs, Abaco, New Providence : Florida : Cuba. Recorded by Coker as Epidendrum fucatum Lindl. Tampa Encyclia.
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