!Elythranthera brunonis [Endl] A. S. George 1963
Photos by © Tony Watkinson
Photo showing color variations
Photos by © Ron Heberle and the Thelymitra Page of The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia
EARLY
Common Name Robert Brown's Elythranthera [Scottish Orchid Collector and Botanist in SE Asia 1800's] - The Purple Enamel Orchid
Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]
Grows as a medium sized, terrestrial orchid in sand in southwestern West Australia at elevations of 5 to 350 meters with glandular pubescent aerial parts and oblong-oblanceolate, green leaves that are purple at the base and blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying glossy enamel purple becoming pink flowers.
Synonyms Caladenia brunonis [Endl]Rchb.f 1871; *Glossodia brunonis Endl.1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Glossodia brunonis; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Glossodia brunonsis; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest vol 71 #4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 12 2007 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok;
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