Encyclia stellata

Appearance

Clustered, ovoid to subglobose, smooth, shiny green in youth, irregularily rugose with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by little to no sheaths and carrying, 2, apical, coriaceous, rigid, sharp margined, sulcate midvein, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, short to 9.2" [to 23 cm] long, verruculose, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb.

Naming

Synonyms Encyclia alanjensis [Ames] Carnevali & Romero 1994; Encyclia hunteriana Schlechter 1922; Encyclia powellii Schlechter 1922; Epidendrum alanjense Ames 1922; *Epidendrum stellatum Lindley 1853;

Distribution

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and western Venezuela.

Habitat

Found in lowland dry or seasonally dry forest.