Elleanthus oeconomicus (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Garay & Dunst. 1979 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Cesar Fernandez
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name The Slender Elleanthus
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Tachira, Sucre and Zulia states of Venezuela, and Cauca and Nariño departments of Colombia along streams and rivers on steep slopes at elevations around 2000 to 3400 meters as a just small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with slender, erect, unbranched stems carrying lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lancelate, acute to acumiante, glabrous , plicate leaves that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on a terminal, erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, subdensely 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, glabrous, twice or more as longa s the ovary floral bracts.
"Characterized by having a lip very swollen at the base witha pair of well separated, inconspicuous calli with transverse, rigid laminae in front of them." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Evelyna oeconomica Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 113 Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna oeconomicus
Orchids Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide vol 1: 187 Dunsterville and Garay 1979;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ?;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:288 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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