Elleanthus maculatus (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Maculatae Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photos by © Jay Pfahl Cundinamarca 2022
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Spotted Elleanthus [refers to the spotted bracts]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1400 to 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphtye with an erect, cane-like stem carrying plicate, rigid, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the sessile clasping base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a terminal, furfuraceous, to 4" [10 cm] long, rather densely many flowered inflorescence arising through a foliaceous sheath with linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts that are longer than the flower.
Similar to E caricoides but distinguished by the larger, purple, showy flowers, held in a longer, denser flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Elleanthus harlingii Garay 1953;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Syst. 6: 482 Rchb.f 1863;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 37 Schlechter Ecuador 1921;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 34 Schlechter Bolivia 1922;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 193 Garay 1953 as E harlingii; ;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as E lupilinus drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchid Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as E lupulinus photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Vasquez & Ibisch 2004;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as E longibracteatus photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:237 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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