Elleanthus norae Garay & Dunst. 1976
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Dunsterville and Orchids Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide ed. 2: 1131 2000
Common Name Nora's Elleanthus [Mrs Dunsterville Orchid Enthusiast and Collector 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Venezuela in tall forests at elevations of 1300 to 1700 meters as a giant [about 2 to 3 times larger than most large Elleanthus]sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, uppermost 20 to 30% leafy stems, below largely enveloped by old grey, nervose leaf sheaths, above carrying plicate, not deeply grooved, shiny green ventrally, dorsally duller elliptic, acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, short, densesly many flowered inflorescence with prominent, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
One of the tallest of the genus and carryig rose-pink to pale cream flowers, supported with pale to dark green bracts with some lavender flush towards the base. The lip margins are irregularly dentate and the approximate calli are ellipsoid-ovoid." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #7 1979 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 2 1986 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Second Edition Romero & Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:275 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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