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Encyclia nematocaulon; photograph (c) Cenoteando, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC BY-SA(c) Cenoteando, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2021-06-24

Encyclia nematocaulon (A.Rich.) Acuña

Threadstemmed Encyclia

Orchidaceae · Cuba · listed by its genus as an orchid

No habitat climate
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Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Encyclia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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Group. Listed under the genus Encyclia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeCuba · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 107 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Giovana A. Valencia, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Other Encyclia 41 in the reference

Encyclia acapulcensis Orchidaceae Encyclia adenocarpos Encyclia adenocarpos Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, Sinaloa SilvestreEncyclia adenocaula Encyclia adenocaula Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Aarón SandovalEncyclia advena Encyclia advena Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, NasserHalaweh Encyclia aenicta Orchidaceae Encyclia alata Encyclia alata Winged Encyclia Photo: CC BY-SA, Jalil R. Encyclia ambigua Orchidaceae Encyclia argentinensis Encyclia argentinensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Tomás Carranza PeralesEncyclia aspera Encyclia aspera Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M.Encyclia belizensis Encyclia belizensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Trevor HardingEncyclia bractescens Encyclia bractescens María's Encyclia Photo: CC BY, Miguel ShoEncyclia candollei Encyclia candollei Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Claudio Cantú Muñiz all 42 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Epidendrum nematocaulon. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(A.Rich.) Acuña
Native to
Cuba
Wild records
none in range · 107 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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