Elleanthus aureus (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Alfonso Doucette
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photo by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name The Golden Elleanthus
Flower Size 3/8" [.93 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca and Putumayo departments of Colombia, Tungurahua province of Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1400 to 2800 to 3300 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with compressed, lenticular in cross-section, vaginate below leafy above stems carrying rather densely many, subcoriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, sessile, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, cylindric, slightly arcuate, densely many flowered inflorescence with reddish purple, ovate-cymbiform, acute to subobtuse bracts.
"Similar to E bonplandii but the lip of E bonplandii is broadly rhombic-obovate to rhombic-orbicular, broadly rounded and minutely crisped in front while in E aureus the lip is cuneate-flabellate, obscurely bilobed in front with a short apicule in the center. and the disc is concave with finely erose-denticulate margin." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Evelyna aurea Poepp. & Endl. 1836
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 33 Poepp. & Engl. 1836 as Evelyna aureua;
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 484 Rchb.f 1863;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
The Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 9 1962 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo not = ?;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 2001 drawing good/photo good;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing good/photos fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 81 #1 2017 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo hmm?;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:257 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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