Eltroplectris brachycentron Szlach. 1995
Drawing of E travassosii not = E brachycentron by Dodson & Vasquez 1989
TYPE Drawing by Szlachetko and Novon 5: 375 Schlachenko 1995
Common Name The Short Spur Electroplectris
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Santa Cruz department of Bolivia at elevations around 900 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 8, cauline, herbaceous, transparent, membraneous, acute, adnate to the stem, lower longer, upper shorter than the internodes bracts that blooms without leaves, in the winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 6.2" [15.5 cm] long, provided with 8, herbaceous, transparent, membraneous, acute, adnate to the stem sheathing bracts, rachis to 5" [12.5 cm] long, lax, 25 to 30 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 nerved, lower longer than the ovaries upper ones equal in length floral bracts.
Similar to E misera but separated by the columnar foot and the spur which reaches the middle of the ovary, the lip is distinctly constricted below the apex and the lip side lobes are agglutinate with the clinandrium. E misera has the spur as long as the ovary and the lip is not divided into a hypochile and epichile and is completely free of the clinandrium.
Synonyms Ochyrella brachycentron (Szlach.) Szlach. & R.González 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 214 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as E travassosii not = E brachycentron drawing fide
* Novon 5: 375 Schlachenko 1995 drawings fide;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 700 Szlach. & R.González 1996
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