Elleanthus purpureus (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Laterales Garay 1978
Photo by © Gilberto Escobar
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Drawing by © P Baranow 2023
Common Name or Meaning The Purple Elleanthus
Flower Size
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia as a cool growing terrestrial with an erect, rather stout, unbranched, lewafy in the upper part stem carrying lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate to long-acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 1.6" [4 cm] long, subdensely several flowered inflorescence with purple,subequalling to equalling the flowers floral bracts and carrying pinkish-white flowers with the sepals often purple.
"Separated by the well separated lip calli, minutely denticulate lip margins and an inflorescence arising on a leafy stem.
Synonyms *Evelyna purpurea Rchb.f. 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 710 Rchb.f 1852 as Evelyna purpureus;
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 478 Rchb.f 1862
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 photo ok;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:319 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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