Elleanthus bonplandii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © P Baranow

Common Name Bonpland's Elleanthus [French Botanist in South America with Humboldt 1773 - 1858]

Flower Size

Found in Peru with unknown locational data as a little known terrestrial with a simple, very stout, leafy stem carrying oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, coriaceous, plicate leaves that blooms on a 4.8 to5.2" [12 to 13 cm] long, somewhat swollen, furfuraceous, cylindrical, sessile, very dense, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-oblong, acute to acuminate, equally to surpassing the flowers.

"Similar to E aureus 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

Synonyms Evelyna bonplandii Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 711 Rchb.f1852 as Evelyna bonplandii

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 483 Echb.f 1863

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:275 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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