Encyclia gallopavina (Rchb.f.)
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Encyclia gallopavina (Rchb.f.) |
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18. Encyclia gallopavina (Rchb.f.) View in CoL Porto & Brade (1935: 29). Epidendrum gallopavinum Reichenbach (1855: 219) . Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: no locality, 1877, Schiller s.n. (holotype: W-R 46705, W-R 46704!) ( Figs. 12 View FIGURE 12 , 25E View FIGURE 25 ). Heterotypic synonym: Encyclia purpurachyla (Barb.Rod.) Porto & Brade (1935: 29). Basionym: Epidendrum purpurachylum Barbosa Rodrigues (1877: 49) .
Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Paraíba do Sul, no date, no collector (lectotype designated by Meneguzzo et al. (2010): illustration by Barbosa Rodrigues (AMES) published in Iconographie des orchidées du Brésil: t. 126, reproduced in Sprunger et al. 1996: 275,
t. 12!.
Epiphytic herbs, 31.8−55.0 cm tall. Pseudobulbs ellipsoidal to ovoid, 4.3−6.8 × 0.7−3.5 cm. Leaves 1−3, oblanceolate to oblong, 27.5−48.1 × 1.2−2.5 cm, apex obtuse. Inflorescence a 5−12-flowered, simple to weakly compound raceme; peduncle 23.0− 34.3 cm long; rachis 5.3−17.5 cm long. Floral pedicel 1.5 × 0.2 cm; sepals green-olive, dorsal lanceolate, 1.6 × 0.6 cm, laterals lanceolate, 1.6 × 0.7 cm, pendent, margin entire, apex mucronate; petals green-olive, spatulate, 1.5 × 0.9 cm, pendent, margin undulate, apex mucronate; lip with claw 0.20 × 0.25 cm, lateral lobes free relative to the triangular midlobe, 0.7 × 0.5 cm, greenish, at an angle ˂45° to the midlobe (in the flattened lip), not overlapping it, margin entire, apex obtuse, midlobe obcordate, 0.4 × 0.6 cm, purple with white border, sinuous, margin undulate, apex obtuse, callus cymbiform, flabellate; column dolabriform, 0.7 × 0.3 cm, clinandrium apex tridentate, lateral teeth horn-like, apex premorse, arms of the column elliptic, 0.10 × 0.15 cm, apex obtuse; stigma oval, with basal hooks; anther one, yellow with red apex.
Distribution and habitat:— Endemic to the southeast ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ).
Phenology:— Flowering May–December.
Etymology:— From the Latin galla, branch, and pavus, peacock, in reference to the inflorescence that the author associated with a peacock.
Taxonomic notes:— Encyclia gallopavina has distinctive flower colours in which the sepals and petals are olive-green and the lip midlobe pink with white margins. The midlobe is obcordate and narrow and relatively small in relation to the short, broad and triangular lateral lobes.
Selected specimens exmined: BRAZIL. Espírito Santo: Alegre, São João do Norte− Rio Norte , 9 August 2008, Couto et al. 954 ( MBML) ; Mimoso do Sul, Itabapoana , 28 September 1936, Mazzini 5 ( SP) ; no locality, no date, Zappi s.n. ( HB 75232 ) . Minas Gerais: Juíz de Fora , 6 October 1942, Heringer 889 ( SP, VIC) . Rio de Janeiro: Campos do Goytacazes , 11 m, 31 July 1947, Penna s.n. ( RB 60767 ) ; Resende , 403 m, 25 September 1938, Ochioni 6373 ( HB, IAN) . São Paulo: São Paulo, Jardim Botânico , October 1932, Kuhlmann s.n. ( SP, SPF) .
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