Elleanthus glaucophyllus Schltr. 1910 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Photo by © D McClaren

Common Name The Glaucous-Leaved Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1500 to 3000 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, branching, leafy stem carrying erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, glabrous, glaucous leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, capitate, 1.2" [3 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 times longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"Separated from other large plants with large leaves by the crenulate margins of the lip and relatively small corpuscules towards the base which are globose and approximate.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8(191-195): 567. Schlechter 1910 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing hmm;

Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 75 #1 2011 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide;

Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 drawing good/photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:273 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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