Elleanthus muscicola Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Elleanthus

Characteristics

Small caespitose epiphytic herbs up to about 12 cm. tall. Stems slender, covered with leaf-sheaths. Leaves 10-15 mm. long and 2.5-5 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, coriaceous, persistent, distichous. Inflorescence up to about 1.7 cm. long, a short distichous, obscurely fractiflex raceme; bracts up to about 1 cm. long, lanceolate-ovate or ovate, compressed, cucullate, scarious, sphacelate, imbricated. Sepals substellate-furfuraceous dorsally; dorsal sepal about 3 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, elliptic, acute, cucullate; lateral sepals about 3 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cucullate. Petals about 3.5 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, oblanceolate-subflabellate, obtuse, crenu-late-undulate above. Lip about 3-3.5 mm. long and 3.5-4 mm. broad, flabellate-triangular, truncate and denticulate.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.12
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Distribution

Elleanthus muscicola world distribution map, present in Costa Rica and Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:90021-2
WFO ID wfo-0000948264
COL ID 6F4V7
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Synonyms

Elleanthus muscicola Epilyna muscicola