Elleanthus haematoxanthus (Rchb.f. ex Linden) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © A Krol 2023

Common Name The Blood Red-Yellow Elleanthus [refers to the flowers overall color]

Flower Size

Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia at elevations around 1300 meters as a large to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial? with erect, stiff, leafy above stem carrying lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate leaves that bloosm on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, terminal, axis glabrous, desnsely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate to ovate, acute, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Characterized by the rather robust habit, large leavews and relatively small flowers with glabrous sepals. The lip is concave in the basal half with an erose apical margin." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna haematoxantha Rchb.f. ex Linden 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ill. Hort. 29: 15 Rchb.f 1882 as Evelyna haematoxantha

* Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 485 Rchb.f 1863

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:258 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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