Elleanthus amethystinoides Garay 1978 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023

Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

Common Name The Amethyst-Like Elleanthus [refers to its similarity to E amethystinus]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Boyaca department of Colombia, Cañar and Loja provinces of Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations of 1500 to 2350 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with stiffly erect, slender, leafless and vaginate below, loosely to 10 leaved above stems carrying narrowly elliptic, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the spring and again in the summer on a terminal, elongate, longer than the terminal leaf, to 1.4" [4 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with ovate-cymbiform, aristate-acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, 4 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying the reddish purple to amethest colored flowers in a terminal corymb.

"Similar to E tovarensis but differs in the apical leaf is shorter than the inflorescene and the sepals are sparsely furfuraceous versus the apical leaf surpasses the inflorescence and the sepals are densely furfuraceous-lepidote." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo hmm;

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:289 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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