Elleanthus aristatus Garay 1978 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Awned Elleanthus [refers to the floral bracts]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Carchi and Esmeraldas provinces of Ecuador in tropical wet forests at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, delicate, remotely 3 sheathed, bi to multifoliate near the apex stems carrying thin, lanceolate, long-acuminate, more or less cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, much shorter than the terminal leaf, slender, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with linear-aristate floral bracts that are much longer than the flowers.

"Differs by the normal 2 leaves apex of the stem and surpass the inflorescence in length, yellow or red-orange flowers are supported by linear-aristate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 057 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing good;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:251 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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