Elleanthus wageneri (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name Wagner's Elleanthus [German Plant Collector in Venezuela 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a robust, giant sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying in the apical half, several, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate-attenuate, gradulaly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979

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