Elleanthus petrogeiton Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Stachydelyna Szlach. & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Alexander Reynolds
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
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Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bolivar, Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 2400 to 3300 meters as a medium to giant sized, cold growing, terrestrial with no psuedobulbs and an erect, robust, branching, leafy stem with striate nervose sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 per branch, erect, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, plicate, 7 nerved, papery, acuminate, minutely tridentate, narrowing below and rounded into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, terminal, sessile, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, acuminate floral bracts that surpass the flowers in length.
"Recognized by the relatively short leaves, sparsely furfuraceous sepals a lip longer than wide with sell separated callii." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 35 Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter Ecuador 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2004 drawing ok;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:311 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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