Elleanthus brasiliensis [Lindl.] Rchb. f. 1862 SECTION Cephaleleyna
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Plant and Flowers in situ Brazil
Photo by © Carlos Eduardo Pereira Nunes
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Brazilian Ellanthus
Found in the Organ mountains of Brazil and Bolivia? at elevations of 700 to 1750 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or occasional epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, cane-like stems carrying alternate, dark green, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, to 25 flowered inflorescence carry flowers in a sticky gel.
Distinguished by the lip longer than wide and the lip calli decurrent onto the disc and serrate lip margins
Synonyms *Evelyna brasiliensis Lindl. 1843;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
London J. Bot. 2: 661 Lindley 1843 as Evelyna brasilensis;
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 475 Rchb.f1862
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 34 Schlechter Bolivia 1922;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Rio de Janiero Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret & etal 2012 as Evelyna brasilensis drawing good;
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brasil Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:331 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Evelyna brasilensis drawing fide
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