Encyclia guatemalensis
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Encyclia guatemalensis
A medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species from , Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua at altitudes of 100 to 1300 meters in dry scrub oak, oak forest and tropical semi-deciduous forests with clustered, conical to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear-ligulate, acute leaves. It blooms in the late spring and summer and has an apical, 6 3/4″ to 2′ [17 to 60 cm] long, erect to arching, racemose or branching inflorescence with few to many flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb and has a slightly warty pedicel and ovary.
This species is a part of the Encyclia oncidioides complex and most likely is a synonym of it along with, Enc gravida, Enc mooreana, Enc stellata, and Enc guianensis.