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Pseudelleanthus virgatus is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Elleanthus virgatus.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphyte with an erect, branching and rooting stem carrying plicate, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 3 denticulate apically, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, clasping base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, fractiflex, 3.2 [8 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with glumaceous-cymbiform, acute floral bracts that are as long or longer than the ovary and the flower.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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