!Elleanthus lancifolius C.Presl 1827 SUBGENUS Elleanthus
Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Sword-Shaped Leaf Elleanthus
Flower Size .4" [1cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around [500] 800 to 2700 [3000] meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with erect, cane-like, terete stems enveloped completely by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying towards the apex, plicate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous, thin leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a pendent to horizontal, 3.2" [8 cm] long, flexuous, glabrous, very fractiflex, few to several [6 to 9] flowered, racemose inflorescence with large, loosely arranged, deciduous, far exceeding the ovary and flower floral bracts.
" E laxus is similar in the floral bracts but it is from Panama and E lancifolius is found in Colombia and Ecuador, but E lancifolius is distinguished by the thickening of the disc of the lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Reliq. Haenk. 1: 97 C Presl. 1827;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 37 Schlechter Ecuador 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 371 Dodson 1980 drawing ok;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 440 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing hmm;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing/photos fide;
Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:214 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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