Elleanthus jimenezii (Schltr.) C. Schweinf. 1937 SECTION Epilyna
Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by © Larsen/Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II
Common Name Jimenez's Encyclia [Costa Rican Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized warm to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, sometimes branching stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and each carrying, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, distichous, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, few flowered racemose inflorescence rarely a fwe branched panicle supported on a short peduncle .24" [6 mm] long, with lanceolate-ovate to ovate, compressed, cucullate, scarious, sphacelate, imbricated, floral bracts and carrying white flowers with dark scales on the sepals and on the ovaries, lip apically violet.
"Similar to Elleanthus dressleri but it has and unlobed lip with the presence of a pair of fleshy appendices below the callus cavities, E jimenezii has an unornamented unlobed lip. The leaves of E jimenezii are ovate-elliptic and those of E dressleri are broadly lanceolate and E dressleri is found in premontane forests while E jimenezii occurs in high mountains." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epilyna jimenezii Schltr.1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 11. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epilyna jimenezii drawing;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 5: 38 C Schweinfurth 1937;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1311 Atwood 1989 drawing ok;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Epilyna jimenezii drawing fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:351 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Epilyna jimenezii drawing fide
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