Eltroplectris rossii Dodson & G.A.Romero 1993

TYPE Drawing by Dodson & G A Romero

Common Name Ross's Eltroplectris [American Dr Edward S Ross An original collector of the type and Entomologist 1915 - 2016]

Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]

Found in Succumbios province of Ecuador at elevations of 200 to 240 meters as a medium sized, hot growing aquatic terrestrial with 3 to 5, in a basal rosette, prostrate on the soil surface, elliptic obtuse, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 12.8" [32 cm] long, provided with 6 scattered sheathing bracts, rachis to 3.23" [8 cm] long, loosely 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with short, vaginate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish tan flowers.

"Similar to Eltroplectris longicornu but disatinguished by the much snmaller flowers, the leaves present at blooming, the lip with ovate lateral lobes at the base of the blade rather than towards the apex and the habit of living for much of the year under water in inundated forests." Dodson & G.A.Romero 1993

Synonyms Ochyrella rossii (Dodson & G.A.Romero) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lindleyana 8: 197 Dodson & G A Romero 1993

Lindleyana 8: 195 Dodson & G A Romero 1993 drawing fide

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2: No 498 Dodson & Escobar 2001 drawing fide;

Phylogeny Taxon. Subtr. Spiranthinae Stenorrhynchidinae Cyclopogoninae Centr. S. Amer.: 167 Szlach. & Rutk 2008 as Ochyrella rossii

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 231 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Ochyrella rossii drawing fide

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