Elleanthus condorensis Dodson 1994 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website
Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website
Common Name The Condor Elleanthus [A mountanous Area of Ecuador]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, unbranched, leafless in the lower half stems carrying 5 to 7, variable in size and shape, coriaceous, narrowly ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, minutely 3 lobed apically, mucronate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, fractiflex, furfuraceous, .6" [1.5 cm] long, loosely 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with distichous, horizontally spreading, glumaceous, long acuminate, glabrous, green basal bracts longer than the flowers, apically shorter bracts.
"Similar to E ollgaardii but differs in the flower color [yellow vs white], size of the leaves 2 x .4 vs 3.6 to 4.6 x .96" [5 x 1 vs 9 to 11.5 x 2.4 cm] and the lip calli [well separated vs approximate corpuscules]." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 134-136 Dodson 1994 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide to the first photo;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide to the first photo;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:240, Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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