Elleanthus gastroglottis Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023
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Photo by Patricia Harding.
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name The Bulging Throat Elleanthus
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia, Carchi province of Ecuador and Junin department of Peru at elevations around 1800 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with prostrate to ascending, simple, to distantly branched stems carrying 2 to several, parchment-like to subcoriaceous, 5 nerved beneath, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, suberect to arcuate, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-cymbiform, acuminate, as long as or longer than the flowers, decreasing in size upwards floral bracts and carrying rather thin, reddish violet flowers.
Distinguished by the stout stem branched towards the apex, the thin, papery leaves with 5 prominent veins beneath, the reddish violet flowers and the suborbicular lip that is excised in front and coarsely denticulate on the margin. Similar to E rhizomatosus but differ in the glabrous sepals and the lip is suborbicular in outline excised in front with a coarsely dentate margin.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*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;
Flora of Ecuador 225[1] Orchidaceae Garay 1978;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson 2010 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:287 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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