Elleanthus asplundii Garay 1978 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023
Drawing by Dodson/TYPE Drawing by © Garay
Common Name Asplund's Elleanthus [Swedish botanist in Ecuador 1900's - Original Collector of species]
Flower Size .4" 1 cm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations over 2000 to 2700 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, rather robust, unbranched stem enveloped by remnants of leaf sheaths below and few leaves above stems carrying lanceolate, long-acuminate, plicate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, cylindrical, spirally arranged, subdensely several flowered inflorescence with very prominent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, much longrer than the flowers floral bracts carrying rather large, white with a yellow center of the lip flowers.
"Easily recognized by the longest floral bracts in the section. reaching 2.4" [6 cm] long, The size of the lip is similar to E maculatus but the flower color differs, white with a yellow center of the lip in E asplundii and purple in E maculatus." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:239 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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