Eltroplectris kuhlmanniana (Hoehne) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008
TYPE Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name Kuhlmann's Eltroplectris [Original Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in xerophytic fields at elevations of 300 to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, slender stem carrying 1 to 2 basal ovate-subrounded, shortly acute, mucronate, 7 nerved, atteenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an elongate, 14 to 16" [35 to 40 cm] long overall, rachis 2.4" [6 cm] long, puberulent, laxly few to several flowered inflorescence with distant, membraneous, tubular bracts and linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly pilose, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying whitish flowers.
Similar in a way to Eltroplectris triloba but E kuhlmannii has narrower versus wider leaves, a wider versus narrower lip and a shortly triangular apical lobe versus a linear-oblong apical lobe.
Synonyms *Centrogenium kuhlmannianum Hoehne 1944
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 1: 133 Hoehne 1944 as Centrogenium kuhlmannianum
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 287 Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium kuhlmannianum;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Illustrations: tab 155 Hoehne 1945 as Centrogenium kuhlmannianum drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Centrogenium kuhlmannianum drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
*Phylogeny Taxonomy Spiranthinae: 164 Szlach. & Rutk. 2008
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing/photo fide;
Lankesteriana 19(3): 234 2019 as Centrogenium kuhlmannianum drawing fide
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