Encyclia plicata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Encyclia
- Species
- Encyclia plicata
- Scientific Name
- Encyclia plicata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Encyclia plicata
Encyclia plicata is a species of orchid. It is a pseudobulbous epiphyte native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It is native to shrublands and dry forests, where it grows in trees and shrubs and in leaf litter on the ground. Its population is stable in the Bahamas, but the Cuban populations are under pressure from deforestation, quarry mining, residential and tourist development, non-native invasive species, and harvesting for sale to orchid collectors.
The species was first described as Epidendrum plicatum by John Lindley in 1847. In 1914 Rudolf Schlechter renamed the species Encyclia plicata.
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Sibling Taxa
- Encyclia acapulcensis
- Encyclia acutifolia
- Encyclia adenocarpa
- Encyclia adenocaula
- Encyclia advena
- Encyclia aenicta
- Encyclia alata
- Encyclia alboxanthina
- Encyclia altissima
- Encyclia ambigua
- Encyclia androsiana
- Encyclia angustiloba
- Encyclia argentinensis
- Encyclia aspera
- Encyclia asperula
- Encyclia atrorubens
- Encyclia belizensis
- Encyclia betancourtiana
- Encyclia bipapularis
- Encyclia bocourtii
- Encyclia bohnkiana
- Encyclia bracteata
- Encyclia bractescens
- Encyclia caicensis
- Encyclia calderoniae
- Encyclia candollei
- Encyclia ceratistes
- Encyclia chiapasensis
- Encyclia chloroleuca
- Encyclia contrerasii
- Encyclia cordigera
- Encyclia correllii
- Encyclia dichroma
- Encyclia diota
- Encyclia dressleri
- Encyclia elegantula
- Encyclia enriquearcilae
- Encyclia flabellata
- Encyclia flava
- Encyclia fowliei
- Encyclia fucata
- Encyclia gonzalezii
- Encyclia gracilis
- Encyclia granitica
- Encyclia gravida
- Encyclia guadalupeae
- Encyclia guatemalensis
- Encyclia guianensis
- Encyclia halbingeriana
- Encyclia hanburyi
- Encyclia howardii
- Encyclia huertae
- Encyclia inaguensis
- Encyclia incumbens
- Encyclia inopinata
- Encyclia ionosma
- Encyclia isochila
- Encyclia jenischiana
- Encyclia kennedyi
- Encyclia kingsii
- Encyclia leucantha
- Encyclia linearifolioides
- Encyclia lorata
- Encyclia maderoi
- Encyclia meliosma
- Encyclia microbulbon
- Encyclia moebusii
- Encyclia mooreana
- Encyclia nematocaulon
- Encyclia oestlundii
- Encyclia oncidioides
- Encyclia papillosa
- Encyclia parallela
- Encyclia parkeri
- Encyclia parviflora
- Encyclia patens
- Encyclia patriciana
- Encyclia perplexa
- Encyclia phoenicea
- Encyclia plicata
- Encyclia pollardiana
- Encyclia profusa
- Encyclia randii
- Encyclia replicata
- Encyclia rhynchophora
- Encyclia rodolfoi
- Encyclia rufa
- Encyclia rzedowskiana
- Encyclia selligera
- Encyclia spatella
- Encyclia spiritusanctensis
- Encyclia steinbachii
- Encyclia stellata
- Encyclia suaveolens
- Encyclia tampensis
- Encyclia trachycarpa
- Encyclia trachychila
- Encyclia tuerckheimii
- Encyclia uxpanapensis
- Encyclia viridiflora
- Encyclia xerophytica
- Encyclia × cordistes
- Encyclia × nizandensis
- Encyclia × padreortizii