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Orchid Species: Elleanthus cephalotus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Elleanthus cephalotus is an orchid species identified by Garay & H.R.Sweet in 1972.
ORIGIN: Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Islands at elevations of 750 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with an erect to pendent, simple, clustered, stout stems carrying numerous, cauline, erect-spreading, deciduous, sheaths persistent, plicate, narrowly elliptic to lancelate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, peduncle stout, 1.2 to 3.6 [3 to 9 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with outer bracts of the floral head imbricate, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate and acuminate and the flowers are embedded in mucilage and bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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