Elleanthus jimenezii (Schltr.) C. Schweinf. 1937 Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Jimenez's Encyclia [Costa Rican Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rainforests at elevations of 2500 meters as a small sized cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and each carrying, ovate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal or axillary, few flowered racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms *Epilyna jimenezii Schltr.1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 11. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epilyna jimenezii

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------