Dilomilis elata (Benth.) Summerh. 1961

Photo by © Mariannis Blanco Reyes and The EcuRed Website

Part shade Warm Cool Winter EARLIERSpring

Common Name The Beautiful Dilomilis

Flower Size

Found in Guantanamo and Holguin provinces of Cuba and Clarendon, Trelawny and St Andrews parishes of Jamaica in wet montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1100 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a woody, terete, reed-like stem carrying many, erect-spreading, rigid, broadly lanceolate, prominently veined, coriaceous, leaves that blooms in the winter and earlier spring on a terminal, erect, 8 to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long, paniculate, many branched, 3 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate, mucronate floral bracts.

Synonyms *Octadesmia elata Benth. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Pl. 3: 525 Benth. 1883 as Octadesmia elata

*Taxon 10: 253 Summerh 1961;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Octadesmia elata

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photos fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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