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Elongatia superbiens is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 2004. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis superbiens.
ORIGIN: Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul with a purple spotted tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical ovate, subacute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms 1 and occasionally 2, suberect to arching, loose, subsecund, to 8.8 [22 cm] long, simultaenosuly several flowered inflorescence arising a slender spathe at the base of the leaf with innfundibular, acute floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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