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Encyclia cajalbanensis Encyclia cajalbanensis
Encyclia cajalbanensis
Encyclia cajalbanensis - Photo © Mercedes MonteroRamirez

Cuban Orchids

Index

Binomials,Synonyms

Species List
Starting With
Containing

Encyclia rosariensis

Kingdom

Plantae

Subkingdom

Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision

Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division

Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

Class

Liliopsida - Monocotyledons

Subclass

Liliidae

Order

Orchidales

Family

Orchidaceae - Orchid family

Subfamily

Epidendroideae

Genus

Encyclia Hook

Genus Source

Bot. Mag. 55: t. 2831 (1828).

Genus Abreviation

Encycl.

Species

Encyclia cajalbanensis

Authority

Múj.Benítez, Bocourt & Pupulin

Source

ANOTHER NEW SPECIES OF ENCYCLIA (ORCHIDACEAE: LAELIINAE) FROM CUBA Franco Pupulin, Ernesto Mújica Benítez
Harvard Papers in Botany Article: pp. 227–230

Synonyms

 

Common Name

 

Etymology

 

Distribution

Cajalbana, Cuba

Altitude

 

Life Form

 

Range

 

Habitat

 

Flowers

 

Flowering period

 

Fragrance

 

 

 

Cajálbana Plateau located at latitude 22°40'N and longitude 83°16'W, in the province of Pinar del Rio, about 100 km from La Habana. Area: c. 100 km² Altitude:reaches 464 m above sea-level.

The region includes the highest concentration of endemic taxa per unit area in Cuba.