Elleanthus decipiens Dressler 2004 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

TYPE Drawing by © Dressler and The Epidendra Website

LATE

Common Name The Deceiving Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Chiriqui province of Panama in cloud forests and wind swept ridges at elevations around 2400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with few branched stems carrying ovate-lanceolate, acuminate leaves with striate sheaths that bloooms in the late summeron a terminal, capitate to subcapitate, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate floral bracts and carrying flowers that are cream colored and the pollinarium is purple.

"Similar in lip form to E confusus but easily separated by the dense, many flowered inflorescence versus loosely flowered, white flowers versus rose and densely furfuraceous sepals versus glabrous." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

*J. Orchideenfreund 11(2): 146-148 Dressler 2004 Drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:246 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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