Elleanthus hirtzii Dodson 1994
SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Hirtziaea Szlach. & Dudek 2023
Plant and flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name Hirtz's Elleanthus [German Engineer, Orchid Enthusiast and Orchid Collector in Ecuador current]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial withcane-like, arcuate, elongate, slender, unbranched, basal half leafless upper half leafy stem carrying 5 to 7 or if fertile 1 to 2 reduced, or leafless stem, thin, plicate, 7 veined, disitichous, narrowly ovate, acuminate, sessile leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, cylindric, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with cymbiform, acute, much shorter than the ovaries, pinkish in youth, becoming green in time floral bracts .
"This species is similar to E. lateralis Garay , E escobarii and E scarfii in the often leafless character of the fertile stems but is distinguished by the green flowers, the ovaries much exceeding the floral bracts, the closely approximate calli, the lack of a prominent, transverse ridge at the apex of the cavity of the lip and the lack of a hood covering the anther." Dodson 1994
Synonyms Evelyna gracilis Rchb.f. 1850
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 134-136 Dodson 1994 Drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo good;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:307 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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