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

Drawing of E capitatus = E cephalophora by © D E Tibbets

Common Name The Head Carrying Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Peru without locational data as a medium sized orchid with slender, delicate, simple, arcuate, leafy above stems and carrying 5 to 7, broadly lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal, capitate, abbreviated, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.

This species, E deuterolindenii and E garayi all have an obscurely bilobed lip near the middle and fusiform, ovoid to ellipsoid lip calli, laterally more or less flattened and decurrent onto the disc. E cephalophora is the only species of the 3 with a lip wider than long." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms *Evelyna cephalophora Rchb.f. 1852;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 216 Rchb.f 1856;

* Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 476 Rchb.f 1862;

Repert. Spec. Nov.

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as E capitatus;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as E capitatus drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:329 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Evelyna cephalophora drawing fide

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