Eltroplectris dalessandroi Dodson 1994
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by Dodson and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Dalessandro's Electroplectris [Ecuadorian Orchide Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador at elevations of 1250 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of adpressed to the ground, broadly elliptic, obtuse, dark green with silver venation, cuneate below into the short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on a terminal, erect, with laxly 8 to 10 loosely adpressed, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence.
"According to Dodson this species is similar to Eltroplectris rossii but E dalessandroi is half as large in a dimensions, the lip is unlobed and the spur apex is free for the last.04" [1mm] only. In our oppinion E dalessandoi is more similar to Microchilus pauciflorus but the plant of E dalessandroi is smaller, with larger leaves, smaller perianth segments and a shorter spur." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Ochyrella dalessandroi (Dodson) Szlach. & R.González 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 140-142 Dodson 1994 drawing fide; Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 700 Szlach. & R.González 1996 as Ochyrella dalessandroi
Flora of Ecuador Vol 87 225[3] Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 230 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Ochyrella dalessandroi drawing fide
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