Elleanthus arevaloi Dudek, Baranow and Szlach. 2023 SUBGENUS Elleanthus
Drawing by © S Nowak/N Oledrzynska 2023
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name Arevalo's Elleanthus [Colombian Co-collector of the new sp[ecies current]
Flower Size
Found in Risaralda department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a medium to just large sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, simple stem carrying plicate, lanceolate, acute, clasping base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, rachis strongly fractiflex, glabrous, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with fufuraceous, purple basally, greenish towards the apex, covering the entire flowers other than the apical part of the labellum, acute floral bracts that are as long as the orange-cream colored flower.
Simiar to E formosus but differs in the shape of the lip which is more distinctly bilobed and the sinus between the lobes is obtuse. The floral bracts are much longer in E arevaloi 1.28" [32 mm] vs .8 to .88" [20 to 22 mm] long, additionally the petals are similar to E ampliflorus but differ in the apex being triaqngular and rounded at the top vs obtuse in E ampliflorus. "Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:218 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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