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Orchid Species: Elleanthus rhodolepis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Elleanthus rhodolepis is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1863.
ORIGIN: Found in Tungurahua Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, vaginate below several leaves above stem carrying, rigid, linear to linear-lanceolate, suberect, mucronate, slightly constricted 1/3 from apex leaves that blooms in the late spring on a subsessile, terminal, cylindric, suberect to acuate recurved, densely many flowered inflorescence with more or less spreading, lanceolate, long-acuminate floral bracts and carrying purplish, furfuraceous externally flowers that are hidden within the bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.24 inches
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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