Elleanthus embreei (Dodson) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Epilyna
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing of Epilyna embrei by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Embree's Elleanthus [American Orchid Enthusiast and original collector of species current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, branching from near the base, flattened stems enveloped by imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, obliquely bilobed apically, with a tiny mucro, 3 veined, midvein prominent, articulate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms on a terminal or from upper nodes of the stem on special flowering branches that have reduced leaves becoming floral bracts, distichously arranged, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively 9 to 11 flowered inflorescence carrying dirty white to cream colored flowers with black furfuraceous hairs on the exterior.
"Similar to Elleanthus sytsmae but differs in the prominent lateral lobes of the lip which almost reach the apex of the middle lobe." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epilyna embreei Dodson 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 144-146 Dodson 1994 as Epilyna embreei Drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 Photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:353 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Epilyna embreei drawing fide
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