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Evelyna gracilis is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Elleanthus gracilis.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 2800 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with long, thin, decumbent, branching at considerable distance, single to 2 to 3 stems grouped together, carrying rather thin, klinear-lanceolate, long acuminate, plicate, three nerved beneath, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on a terminal, erect, subglobose to ovoid, sessile, 1 [2.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with quaquaversal, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, decreasing in size towards the top, floral bnracts and carrying flowers that are thin in texture and purplish in color.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.24 inches [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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