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Orchid Species: Elleanthus columnaris
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Elleanthus columnaris is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1863.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete to very lighly compressed, green to purple brown stem enveloped by in the lower third, old tubular grey, nervose sheaths and in the upper 2/3s green. leaf sheath bases carrying shiney green above,, rather dull beneath, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, closely packed, subtended by many braacts that are the same brilliant fuschia-magenta as the sepals, 2 [5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence and carrying flowers with a white lip with rusty colored markings.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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