Elleanthus discolor (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Rchb.f. 1862

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Common Name The Different Colored Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 500 to 1650 meters as a medium szied, warm to cool growing terrestrial with stout, thick, leafy above stems carrying thin, plicate, purplish underneath, elliptic, shortly acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 3.2" [8 cm] long, spicate, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms *Evelyna discolor Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 059 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 673 Hamer 1982; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2003

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