Elleanthus lepidus (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1881 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © P Baranow 2023

Common Name The Beautiful Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica without locational data as a medium sized terrestrial? with erect, delicate, leafess below, leafy above stem carrying 6 to 8, lanceolate to narrowly-lanceolate, long acuminate, stiff leaves that blooms on an erect, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, terminal, subtended by a long spathe, subdensely several flowered inflorescence with glabrous, much longer than the flowers floral bracts.

Similar in size to E crinipes but this one is distinguished by the leaf sheaths being adpressed to the stem and approximate lip callii." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna lepida Rchb. f. 1859;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 15: 56 (1859 as Evelyna lepida

*Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 92 Rchb.f 1881

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:262 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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