Elleanthus laxifoliatus Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name The Lax Leaved Elleanthus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Cajamarca department of Peru at elevations of 2400 to 2500 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with simple, slender, laxly few leaved apically stems carrying lanceolate, acuminate, tridenticulate apically leaves that blooms on a shortly pedunculate, cylindric, to 3.4" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, imbricate, lower ones surpassing the flower floral bracts.

"Similar in some respects to E smithii but E laxifoliatus has the leaves twice smaller and a similar twice shorter inflorescence and the lip of E laxifoliatus is smaller with calli decurrnet in front onto the disc. The corpuscules of E smithii are rounded and usually not decurrent onto the disc." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 48 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:266 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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