Elleanthus isochiloides Løjtnant 1977 SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawing by Dodson
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Common Name The Isochilus-Like Elleanthus [refers to the plants habit]
Flower Size 1/12” [2 mm]
Found in Cotopaxi province of central Ecuador in tree tops in tropical wet and montane cloud forests at elevations of 10 to 2200 meters as a just medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, terete leafy stems with erect to ascendingly spreading, oblong-linear, obtuse, bidentate apically, shortly mucronate dorsally leaves that blooms in the late winter or mid summer on a terminal, subsesile, 1.6" [4 cm] long, fractiflex, ovate to cylindric, many flowered inflorescence with distichous, imbricating, ovate-cymbiform, acute, 3 to 4 times longer than the ovary floral bracts that somewhat exceed the flowers.
"Similar to Elleanthus steyermarkii but differs in the larger leaves 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] versus 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, and a much longer inflorescence 1.6" [4 cm] long versus .4" [1 cm]." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Adeneleuterophora isochiloides (Løjtnant) Dudek & Szlach. 2010
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bot. Not. 129: 450 Lojtnant 1977
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 060 Dodson 1980 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing hmm;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
Richardiana 11: 4 Szlach & Dudek 2010 as Adeneleuterophora isochiliodes
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:346 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora isochiloides drawing fide
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