Elleanthus caravata (Aubl.) Rchb. f. 1878 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Hirsutae [Rchb.f] Szach. & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos By Clarence J Gillig
Drawing By Dunsterville and Garay
Common Name
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in The Windward Islands, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia??, Napo and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in mossy primary wet forests at elevations around 200 to 1600 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with reed like, terete, slender, hairy stems carrying several, plicate and heavily pleated, hairy beneath, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, basally clasping leaves and blooms at any time of the year on an apical corymb and carry several to many flowers that open successively over a few days and are almost enveloped by the elongate, reddish purple floral bracts.
"E caravata is hispid along the stem and on the leaves. Its flowers are pale yellow annd supported by deep purple floral bracts. E hirsutus is hirsute all over and the flowers are white or purple." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Cymbidium hirsutum Willd. 1805; Epidendrum hirsutum (Willd.) Poir. 1810; Evelyna caravata (Aubl.) Lindl. 1861; *Serapias caravata Aubl. 1775; Sobralia caravata (Aubl.) Lindl. 1833;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 816 Aubl. 1775 as Serapias caravata;
Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 94 Willd. 1805 as Cymbidium hirsutum;
Encycl., Suppl. 1: 367 Poir. 1810 as Epidendrum hirsutum;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 177 Lindley 1833 as Sobralia caravata;
Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 15: 56 Rchb.f 1859 as Evelyna lepida;
J. Gén. Hort. 14: 85 Lindley 1861 as Evelyna caravata;
* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 92 Rchb.f 1881;
* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 92 Rchb.f 1881 as E lepidus;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing ok;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing good;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo hmm;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 446 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret & etal 2012 drawing good/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:299 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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