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Elleanthus discolor (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Hymenophora

Inflorescence

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Plant and Flowers

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Inflorescence? Bracts too long

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Common Name The Different Colored Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nicaragua, San Jose province of Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivar province of Ecuador and Peru on embankments in very wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with stout, thick, leafy above stems carrying thin, plicate, purplish underneath, elliptic, shortly acuminate leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, erect, 3.2" [8 cm] long, spicate, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, striate, decreasing in size upwards, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Characterized by denticulate-fimbriate lip margins and very large, approximate calli filling the entire cavity. It can be confused with E oligathus and E hymenophora but difffers in the approximate calli versus well separated as well as the lip margin." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms *Evelyna discolor Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 113 Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna discolor;

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 480 Rchb.f 1862;

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

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

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

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 059 Dodson 1980 drawing good;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 673 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing ok;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 448 Dodson 1989 drawing good;

Native Colombian Orchid Vol 2 COS 1991 photo good;