Elleanthus myrosmatis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found Aragua state of Venezuela, in Santander department of Colombia, Pichincha and Tunguraua provinces of Ecuador and Huanuco department of Peru at elevations of 400 to 2800 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a stout, compressed, simple stem carrying several, subcoriaceous, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaves that blooms on a terminal, strobiliform, 3.6" [9 cm] long, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence subtended by 2 to 3, reddish purple, imbricate, triangular, navicular spathes and has reddish purple, ovate to cymbiform, acute to obtuse, much longer than the ovary floral bracts that decrease in size towards the apex.
"This species is distinguished by funnel shaped leaf sheaths which also is found in E crinipes but it has shorter and narrower leaves 4.8 x .6" [12 x 1.5 cm] versus 9.6 x 2.4" [24 x 6 cm] in E myrosmatis and furfuraceous floral bracts versus glabrous in E myrosmatis." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Evelyna myrosmatis Rchb.f. 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983;
Die Orchideen lieferung 13 Schlechter/Brieger 1983;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:259 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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