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Elleanthus conifer (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by Calaway Dodson ©

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Common Name The Pinecone-Like Elleanthus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia, Tungurahua province of Ecuador and and Cusco department of Peru at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte at tree bases with pendent slender, cane-like, leafless below, loosely several leaves above stems carrying coriaceous, suberect, narrowly linear-ellipitc, long acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, cone-like then elongate, ovoid to cylindrical, slightly arcuate, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-elliptic, deeply concave, obtuse, violet , twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying spirally arranged, successively opening pink flowers.

"A robust species with very large leaves and showy flowers, which color vary depending on the age of the flower and supported by relatively short, violet, ovate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse floral bracts." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Elleanthus conchochilus Schltr.1921; *Evelyna conifera Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bonplandia 2: 113 Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna conifera;

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 474 Rchb.f 1862;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921 as E conchochilus;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as E conchochilus;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;

Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983 as E conchochilus;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 447 Dodson 1989 drawing ok;

Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok;

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok;

AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:271 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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