Elleanthus casapensis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862 SECTION Cephaleleyna

Drawings by © P Baranow/N Oledrzynska

Common Name The Casapi Elleanthus [A town in Peru]

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Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2100 to 2300 meters as a giant sized, cold growing orchid with a slender, vaginate below, leafy above stem carrying broadly lanceolate, elliptic to lanceolate elliptic, abruptly constricted below the apex into a long-acuminate apex, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms on a terminal, capitate, sessile, 1.2" [3 cm] long, tightly packed, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acumniate, densely glandular, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale rose to magenta colored flowers.

"Recognized by the narrow lip calli shared by E casapensis and E zamorensis but E sodiroi differs in the obovate-flabellate lip with entire margins and a glabrous disc. E casapensis has glabrous sepals and petals with entire margins. E sodiroi is easily separated by the obovate-flabellate lip with entire margins and a glabrous disc." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna casapensis Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 709 Rchb.f 1852 as Evelyna casapensis;

* Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 475 Rchb.f 1862;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:333 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Evelyna casapensis drawing fide

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