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Encyclia diurna

Encyclia diurna
Photo: Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Bulb
Native range
Costa Rica to N. South America and Brazil (Pará)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Encyclia diurna is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to Costa Rica and Panama in Central America, and to north Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela in South America. It was first described in 1853.

Other Encyclia plants

Encyclia adenocarpa · Encyclia adenocaula · Encyclia advena · Winged Encyclia · Encyclia alboxanthina · Encyclia ambigua · Encyclia bohnkiana · Encyclia bracteata · Encyclia candollei · Encyclia ceratistes · Encyclia conchaechila · Large Lipped Encyclia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encyclia diurna by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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