WANOSCG Orchid Fact Sheet

Elythranthera

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Elythranthera

Elythranthera distribution

Name and Authority

Elythranthera (Endl.) A.S.George

Common Name

Enamel Orchids

Originally Described by

Stephan Endlicher in Novarum Stirpium Decades 2: 16 (1839) as Glossodia sect. Elythranthera

Flowering Months

· · · · · · · Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Description

Elythranthera species have a broad, prominently hairy leaf, a hairy flower stem and up to three glossy-purple or glossy-pink flowers with broad, spreading petals and sepals, a prominently-hooded column and a small membranous labellum with two large, black lamina calli.

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