Elleanthus crinipes Rchb.f. 1881 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szlach & Dudek 2023 Photo by © C. E. P. Nunes, F. W. Amorim, J. L. S. Mayer & M. Sazima and Pollination ecology of two species of Elleanthus (Orchidaceae): Novel mechanisms and underlying adaptations to hummingbird pollination.
Drawing by © Cogniaux
Common Name The Hirsute Column Foot Elleanthus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in French Guiana and Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais states of Brazil at elevations around 1000 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with erect to inclined, leafless below leafy above, rose red stems carrying coriaceous to rigid, lanceolate, long acuminate, 7 to 9 nerved, dark above, lighter beneath, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, spicate, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, 25 to 30 flowered inflorescence with imbricate, lanceolate, long acuminate, very concave, longer than the flowers floral bracts.
" E crinipes is distinguished by funnel shaped leaf sheaths which also is found in E myrosmatis but it has longer and wider leaves 9.6 x 2.4" [24 x 6 cm] versus 4.8 x .6" [12 x 1.5 cm] in E myrosmatis and glabrous floral bracts versus furfuraceous in E crinipes." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Evelyna crinipes Rchb.f. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 92 Rchb.f 1881
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 photo fide;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Rio de Janiero Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide;
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:260 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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