Elleanthus auriculatus Garay 1978 SUBGENUS Ottophora [Garay] Szach & Dudek.
Drawing by Dodson/TYPE Drawing by © Garay
Common Name The Auriculate Elleanthus
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Napo province of eastern Ecuador at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, very slender, unbranched, leafy stems carrying thin, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, equally 3 dentate leaves taht blooms in the fall on a terminal, rather short, to .8" [2 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with purple, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, commonly imbricate, quaquaversal, 5 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rose colored small flowers.
"Characterized by the pair of prominent auricles at the top of the gymnostemium that are larger than others in the subgenus. Additionally it has a subglobose lip calli and has basally connate, dorsally carinate lateral sepals that are sparsely ciliolate along the keels." 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:296 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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