Erythrodes plantaginea (L.) Fawc. & Rendle 1910 Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillannae

Flower Closeup Photo by Richard GAUTIER and his Guadeloupe Orchid Website

Common Name The Plantago-Like Erythrodes

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, the Windwards and Venezuela in underbrush of humid montane forests as a medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 4 to 7, plicate, ovate-elliptic, petiolate leaves and blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, hairy, 12 to 18" [30 to 45 cm] long, loosely many flowered racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Microchilus plantagineus (L.) D.Dietr 1852; Orchis plantaginea [L.] Sw. 1800; Pelexia bursaria Lindley 1840; Physurus eliator Rchb.f 1855; Physurus plantaginea [L.] Lindley 1840; *Satyrium plantaginea L 1759

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Physurus plantagineus; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Microchilus platagineus; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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