!Eltroplectris calcarata (Sw.) Garay & H.R. Sweet 1972 Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillanae

Fragrance Part shade Cool to Hot LATE Winter and Spring

Common Name The Spurred Eletroplectris

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

This is a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid found from South Florida through the Caribbean to Trinidad, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters alongside streams with 1 or 2, elongate, thin, petiolate base, oblong-lanceolate, purply green, ventrally brown spotted leaves that are rarely present at blooming, which occurs in fall and winter on a 2'10" [1 meter] long, erect, pubescent, loosely few to several [15] flowered, racemose inflorescence that has basal sheaths and the fragrant flowers occur in the late winter and spring.

Synonyms Centrogenium calcaratum (Sw.) Schltr. 1920; Centrogenium rademarkeri Ruschi & la Gasa 1972; Centrogenium setaceum (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920; Collea calcarata (Sw.) Lindl. 1823 ; Eltroplectris acuminata Raf. 1837; *Neottia calcarata Sw. 1806; Pelexia calcarata (Sw.) Cogn. 1909; Pelexia domingensis Lindley 1840; Pelexia setacea Lindl. 1840; Pelexia setacea var glabra Cogn. 1909; Spiranthes calcarata (Sw.) Jimenez 1962; Stenorrhynchos calcaratum (Sw.) Rich. 1818

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pelexia setacea; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pelexia calcarata; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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