Elleanthus amethystinus (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb. f. 1862 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by Gilberto Escobar
Photo by Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay .
Common Name The Purple Elleanthus
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Peru in montane forests on open rocky, brush and tree covered slopes at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with elliptic-lanceolate, tough, pale green, thin leaves on a tubular stem with close, tubular, scarious sheaths that blooms in the winter and early spring on a terminal, short, racemose inflorescence carrying several campanulate flowers.
Somewhat similar to E caveroi but differs in the rose-purple colored flowers versus dark purple except the white lip with yellowish lines, the inflorescence axis and ovary are furfuraeceous versus glabrous, and the lip margin is irregularly dentate-erose instead of apical margin flared outward, lightly undulate and irregularly incised." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
This species can take full sun except at midday.
Synonyms Evelyna amethystina Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 479 Rchb.f 1862
Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 113 Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna amethestina;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as E magnicallosus not drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum 031 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:243 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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