Encyclia alata
A robust lowland epiphytic orchid found from southern Mexico through Central America to Panama, mostly below 500 m. It grows hot and bright, with heavy summer rain and a distinct dry season from about January to April, and does well mounted or in a coarse bark mix with a drier winter rest.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte in lowland seasonally dry and humid forest, often in fairly exposed spots on trunks and branches. These details come from the records and the genus, since the species is thinly described.
Recorded from 6 to 2050 m, but the median is 150 m (126 records), so it is mainly a lowland plant.
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