Elleanthus flavescens (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Stachydelyna [Rchb.f] Szlach. & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © Dunsterville and Garay

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Common Name The Yellow Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Distrito Federal of Venezuela, Colombia, Loja province of Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1450 to 2750 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with erect to recumbent, fairly thin, terete, strong, occasionally branching stems that apically frequently have small, suberect, short, clustered plantlets, and all carrying plicate, thin, hard, rigid, narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on terminal from the plantlets and occasionally laterally from the main stem, 2.4" [6 cm] long, to 8 flowered inflorescence with relatively large persistentsubequalling the flowers floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers with a white column and anther.

"Similar to E cajamarcae but differs in the subentire margin of the lip

Synonyms *Evelyna flavescens Lindl. 1846

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orchid. Linden.: 11 Lindley 1846 as Evelyna flavescens

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 479 Rchb.f 1862

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Romero & Carnevalli 2000 drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing hmm;

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:312 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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