Elleanthus virgatus (Rchb.f.) C.Schweinf. 1938

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Spotted Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphyte with an erect, branching and rooting stem carrying plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, several flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are longer than the ovary and the flower

Synonyms Pseudelleanthus virgatus (Rchb.f.) Brieger 1983; *Sertifera virgata Rchb.f. 1876; Sobralia micrantha Kraenzl. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo? & Drawing;

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