Elleanthus linifolius C.Presl 1827

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage

Common Name The Flax-Like Leafed Elleanthus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing, densely caespitose terrestrial with simple, erect, thin, basally naked, apically leafy stems carrying membraneous, plicate, linear, more or less unequally tridenticulate to acute leaves that blooms on a spicate, .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing good; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Hamer 1974 as D simula; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok; Die Orchideen lieferung 13 Schlechter/Brieger 1983 photo good/drawing ok; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing fide

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