Eltroplectris roseoalba (Rchb. f.) Hamer & Garay 1974 Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website
Another Angle Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
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Common Name The Pink-White Eltroplectris
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, at the forest border, in shady places around 900 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, deciduous leafed terrestrial with 3 to 6, patent to erect-patent, elliptical, acute to rounded and apiculate, deeply canaliculate, glabrous dark green leaves in a basal rosette with white spotting and blooms on a terminal, erect, terete, glabrous, 6" to 16" [15 to 40 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence almost completely enveloped by several loose, inflated, acuminate bracts and floral bracts beneath each flower.
Synonyms Centrogenium roseoalbum (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1919; *Pelexia roseoalba Rchb. f. 1854; Pteroglossa roseoalba (Rchb.f.) Salazar & M.W.Chase 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bonplandia 2: 11. 1854 as Pelexia roseoalba; AOSW Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Centrogenium roeoalbum; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Centrogenium roseo-album photo fide; *Las Orquídeas de El Salvador Vol 1: 160. Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Centrogenium roseoalbum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Centrogenium roseoalbum; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing/photo fide
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