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

Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay

Common Name The Column-Shaped Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia, Distrito federal state of Venezuela and northern Brazil at elevations of 1300 to 2600 meters as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, terete to very lighly compressed, green to purple brown stem enveloped by in the lower third, old tubular grey, nervose sheaths and in the upper 2/3"s green. leaf sheath bases carrying shiny green above, rather dull beneath, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, closely packed, subtended by many braacts that are the same brilliant fuschia-magenta as the sepals, 2" [5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence oblong to oblong-elliptic, acute, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with a white lip with rusty colored markings.

"Similar to E myrosmatis but it has funnel shaped leaf sheaths and a single callus dorsally sulcate and E columnaris has leaf sheaths that are adpressed to the stem and the lip calli are approximate.

Synonyms *Evelyna columnaris Lindl. 1846

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orchid. Linden.: 11 Lindley 1846 as Evelyna columnaris;

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 483 Rchb.f 1863;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated vol II Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing good;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2004;

Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing ok;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:261 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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