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Elleanthus graminifolius (Barb.Rodr.) Løjtnant 1977 SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay

Photo courtesy of Photo by Moises Behar

Drawing by © Dunsterville and Garay

Common Name The Grass-Like Leafed Elleanthus

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, usually erect but occasionally ascending epiphyte with a slender, leafy in the apical half stem enveloped completely by adpressed leaf sheaths and carrying linear, rather thin, 3 denticulate apically, mucronate dorsally, mucro surpases the tip of the leaf blade leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, caespitose, much shorter than the terminal leaf, .4" [1 cm] long, fractiflex, several flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by a leaf bearing sheath and with distichous, imbricating, ovate-lanceolate, cymbiform, acute to subacuminate floral bracts that are longer than the flowers.

"Similar to E ligularis ut differs in the narrower leaves and the lip is obtriangular versus subquadrate." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Adeneleuterophora graminifolia Barb.Rodr. 1881; Elleanthus pusillus Schlt. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 171 Barb Rodr. 1882 as Adeneleuterophora graminifolia; Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 117 Schlechter 1922 as E pusillus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as E linifolius not drawing ok;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as E linifolius drawing ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as E pusillus;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ok;

*Bot. Not. 129: 447 Lojtnant 1977

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;

Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 674 Hamer 1982 drawing good;

Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983;

ORQUIDEA (Méx. ) 10 (1) ABRIL 1986 drawing/photo fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing good;

Icones Orchidacearum I plate 14 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing good;

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 032 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;

Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2004 photo fide;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 drawing/photo fide;

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;

Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 as Adeneleuterophora graminifolia drawing good/ photo fide;

Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret & etal 2012 as Adeneleuterophora graminifolia drawing good;

Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;

Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 as Adeneleuterophora graminifolia drawing good;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:342 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora graminifolia drawing fide

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