Coryanthes elegantium Linden & Rchb. f. 1868 SUBGENUS Anosmophorum
Photos by © Nicholas Plummer
Bucket with Dripping Sinus View
Rear View of Column and Exit of Bucket
Photos by © Danny Lentz plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Elegant Coryanthes
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil on the Rio Negro in wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, ant supporting epiphyte with elongate, ovate, grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, thin, acuminate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a pendant, basal, 10" [25 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with very fragrant, short-lived flowers.
This is the only Coryanthes found west of the Andes in Ecuador.
Synonyms Coryanthes elegantissima Mast. 1882; Coryanthes macrantha Mast. 1882; Coryanthes wolfii F. Lehm. 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942 as C wolfii; Orchidaceae Braziliense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 3/4 1977/8; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 028 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 18 #1 1991 Photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escobar 1993 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Colombian Orhcids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelelnko & Bermudez 2009 as C sp photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Richardiana Vol 5 Chiron & Marcal 2021 Une Orginisation infragenerique de Corynathes [Orchidaceae] Photo fide;
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