Elleanthus magnicallosus Garay 1953 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Magnicallosae Szach. & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Karsten Thomsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © GCK Dunsterville
Common Name The Large Callus Elleanthus
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Huila department of Colombia and Napo and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 3500 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, stiff, mostly unbranched, occasionally with short side branches, leafless below, loosely several leaved above stems carrying plicate, more or less rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, arcuate to pendent, pedunculate, cylindric, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size towards the apex, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying variable colored flowers that range from yellow to purple.
"Similar to E scopula but differs in the twice longer than wide sepals versus 2.5 to 3 times longer than wide, a longer than wide lip versus as long as wide lip, and the lip margins coarsely denticulate vs finely denticulate." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 47: 194 Garay 1953
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Orchidaceae Garay 1978 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing good/photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:305 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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