Elleanthus curtii Schltr. 1923 SUBGENUS Hymenophora

Drawings by © A Krol 2023

Common Name Albert's Elleanthus [Alberto Brennes Costa Rican botanist earlier 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica, Choco' department of Colombia and Ecuador on steep embankments in wet montane forests at elevations around 800 to 1200 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped completely by striate, leaf sheaths and carrying plicate, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, acute to abruptly acuminate, cuneate rounded below intothe sessile base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, to 4" [10 cm] long, often shorter, cylindrical, somewhat arcuate, sessile, densely many flowered inflorescnece with ovate, cymbiform, acute to subacuminate, almost twice as long as the ovary floral bracts

E curtii is often cited as a synonym of E hymenophorus but differs in the non-furfuraceous sepals and the approximate calli of the lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 79. Schlechter 1923;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:229 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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