Elleanthus laxus Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Elleanthus

Drawing by © N Oledrzynska

partial shade Hot Winter

Common Name The Lax Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in southern Darien province of Panama at low elevations as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a strongly abbreviated rhizome giving riser to thin glabrous roots and an erect, simple, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 6, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaves with tightly clasping sheaths that blooms in the winter on a terminal, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, loosely few to several flowered inflorescence with reduced upward, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceous, strongly cucullate, longer than the flower floral bracts.

Similar to E macer but distinguished by the papillate lip surface versus glabrous in E macer.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 213 Schlechter 1913;

Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 10. Costa Rica 1923;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1312 Atwood 1989 drawing good;

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:207 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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