Elleanthus caveroi D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1998 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023
Drawing by © Bennett & Christenson
Common Name Cavero's Elleanthus [Peruvian Collector of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Peru at elevations around 1300 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an erect, terete, leafy stem enveloped by leaf sheath bases carrying oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, stiff, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, strobile, 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely successively few, many flowered inflorescence with subtending bracts and imbricating floral bracts and carrying tubular flowers with fuchsia tepals and a white lip with yellow lines.
"Very similar to E amethestinus but differs in the dark purple except the white lip with yellowish lines versus rose-purple colored flowers, the inflorescence axis and ovary are glabrous versus furfuraeceous , and the lip margin is apical margin flared outward, lightly undulate and irregularly incised instead of irregularly dentate-erose." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Lindleyana 13: 33 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide
Icones Orchidsacearum Peruviarum Plate 438 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:244 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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