Encyclia inaguensis Nash
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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 - Stems slender, up to 1 m. tall, usually from a creeping rootstock, the pseudobulbs up to 1 dm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter at the base, gradually narrowed from the base to the apex. Leaves linear, up to 5 dm. long and 1 cm. wide, acute; inflorescence up to 6 dm. long, paniculate, the branches ascending, the lower ones longer and bearing 2-5 flowers. Flowers 2.5-3 em. in diameter, fragrant; sepals and petals yellow, irregularly striped with purple, the sepals oblong-elliptic, acute, the petals oblanceolate-spathulate, acute; lip about as long as the sepals, white, the lateral lobes and margin of the middle lobe yelow, all flushed and striped with purple; lateral lobes ascending, oblong, acutish, 8-10 mm. long, the middle lobe almost orbicular, tindulate on the margin, retuse, 8-9 mm. in diameter, almost sessile; column white, striped with purple, about 1 cm. long.
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Distribution
On shrubs and trees. Type collected between Northwest Point and Southwest Point, Little Inagua, Oct. 21, 1004 (Nash and Taylor, 1251). A barren specimen from East Caicos (Millspaugh 9111) may be of this species. Inagua Encyclia.
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