Elleanthus ligularis Dressler & Bogarín 2007 SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay
Photos by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by © Dressler & Bogarun Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
Common Name The Spoon-Shaped Elleanthus [refers to the leaves shape]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in premontane forests or on tree along pasture margins and overhanging rivers at elevations around 750 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying well spaced, narrowly linear, obtuse, tridenticulate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, subovate, rachis fractiflex, many flowered inflorescence with the flowers just barely visible within the carinate, narrowly obtuse when flattened floral bracts.
"Similar to E graminifolia but differs in the wider leaves and a subquarate lip versus obtriangular.
Synonyms Adeneleuterophora ligularis (Dressler & Bogarín) Dudek & Szlach 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
* Lankesteriana 7(3): 539. 2007;
Richardiana 11: 4 Szlach & Dudek 2010 as Adeneleuterophora ligularis
Lankestriana 11(3): 185-205 Bogarin 2011 Photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:343 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora ligularisdrawing fide
