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Orchid Species: Encyclia atropurpurea

Kew currently accepted name is Psychilis atropurpurea

Encyclia atropurpurea is an orchid species identified by (Willd.) Schltr. in 1914. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Psychilis atropurpurea.
Genus
Encyclia (E.)
Grex
atropurpurea
Parents
Species
Author
(Willd.) Schltr.
Year
1914
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Peru as a medium sized, bifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphyte, but can occasionally be lithophytic, occurring in dry forests, tropical rainforests and in dense scrub at an altitude of 0 to 900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, bifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphyte, but can occasionally be lithophytic, with ovoid-pyriform, to subglobose pseudobulbs, subtended by a scarious sheaths in youth, sulcate with age and carrying 2 oblong-elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous, narrowing below into an elongate, narrow, petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an apical, to 2' [60 cm] long, few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a short, basal bract and strongly fragrant, heavily textured flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Psychilis Psy atropurpurea 1988 (Willd.) Sauleda
Add+ Epidendrum Epi atropurpureum 1806 Willd.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: E. cordigera 'Hinomaru' (3 awards from 2006 to 2011) E. cordigera 'Orquivalle' (2 awards from 2013 to 2018) E. cordigera 'Donauperle' (2 awards from 2016 to 2018) E. cordigera h.f. alba 'Henrique' (2 awards in 2014) E. doeringii 'Tropic 1' (2 awards in 1988) E. cordigera 'Robert' (2 awards in 1987) E. cordigera 'Memoria Kenneth McBride' (2 awards in 1985) E. cordigera var. rosea 'Elmer Gibson' (2019) E. cordigera var. rosea 'Liz Hamilton' (2018) E. cordigera 'Laetitia' (2018) E. cordigera var. rosea 'Purple Rain' (2016) E. cordigera 'Yashira' (2016) E. cordigera 'Crystal Star' (2016) E. cordigera var. rosea 'Tower of Power' (2016) E. cordigera 'Sun Bulb' (2015) E. cordigera 'Machiavelli' (2014) E. cordigera 'Palmer Orchids' (2013) E. cordigera 'Kerstin' (2013) E. cordigera 'Adelita' (2013) E. cordigera 'JH#88' (2011)
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