Elleanthus dressleri (Szlach. & Kolan.) J.M.H.Shaw 2017 SECTION Epilyna
TYPE Drawing by © N Oledrzynska
LATE
EARLY
Common Name Dressler's Elleanthus [American Botanist in Central America 1927 - 2019]
Flower Size
Found in Cocle province of Panama at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, mat forming epiphyte with a slender leafy stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying broadly lanceolate, emarginate with a minute mucro leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, simple, .6" [1.5 cm] long, sublaxly few flowered inflorescence with sparsely furfuraceous, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers externally covered with stiff hairs.
"Similar to Elleanthus jimenezii but differs in the presence of a pair of fleshy appendices below the callus cavities. The leaves of E jimenezii are ovate-elliptic and those of E dressleri are broadly lanceolate and E dressleri is found in premontane forests while E jimenezii occurs in high mountains." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epilyna dressleri Szlach. & Kolan. 2016
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 53: 17 2016 as Epilyna dressleri
*Orchid Rev. 125: 57 J M H Shaw 2017
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:351 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Epilyna dressleri drawing fide
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