Elleanthus isochiloides Løjtnant 1977 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Isochilus-Like Elleanthus [refers to the plants habit]

Flower Size 1/12” [2 mm]

Found in central Ecuador in tree tops in tropical wet and montane cloud forests at elevations of 10 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, cane-like stems with well spaced, narrow, linear, non-plicate leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a terminal, distichous, densly many flowered inflorescnec with blunt, distichous floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 060 Dodson 1980 ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002