Elleanthus blatteus Garay 1978 SUBGENUS Ottophora {garay] Szach & Dudek.
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website>
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name or Meaning The Purple Elleanthus
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Santander, Risaralda and Putumayo departments of Colombia and Pastaza and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of [600] 1100 to 2600 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial on clay roadbanks and embankments with a slender, remotely vaginate below, few leaved above cane-like stem enveloped in the upper portion by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying narrowly ovate, stiffly erect, subplicate, purple veined below, narrowly lanceolate, tapering towards both ends acute basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a subsessile, ovoid or subglobose, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate, more than 3 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple lilac to deep orange flowers.
"Similar to E koelheri but differs in the sparsely lepidote ovary and the transversely reniform lip with grossly lacerate-fimbriate margins. E koehleri has a glabrous ovary with a flabrllate to suborbicular to semilunate lip with the posterior margins entire and the anterior margins fimbriate." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 445 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:292 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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