Encyclia moebusii
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Encyclia moebusii
Found in northeastern Cuba in the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Massif zone on igneous rocks in wet thickets and pine woods or at the base of small trees and shrubs on montane slopes at elevations around 300 to 960 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte occuring on igneous rock exposed to sunlight with green to violet, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, green suffused with violet, linear to lanceolate, very coriaceous, 2 to 4″ [5 to 10 cm] long, basally coinduplicate leaves that blooms in the later spring through summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8.8 to 19.2″ [22 to 48 cm] long, racemose to sparsely paniculate, each branch .6 to 8.4″ [1.5 to 21 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered, overall 9.4″ to 28″ [23.5 to 70 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence.