Elleanthus peruvianus (Szlach. & Kolan.) J.M.H.Shaw 2017 SECTION Epilyna
TYPE Drawing by © N Oledrzynska
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Peruvian Elleanthus
Flower Size
Found in San Martin department of Peru at elevations around 1850 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a slender, branching from near the base leafy stem carrying linear-lanceolate, bidentate with a long mucro leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, .6" [1.5 cm] long, subdensely few flowered inflorescence with sparsely furfuraceous, somewhat longer than the furfuraceous ovary floral bracts and carrying white, almost glabrous flowers with thin tepals and a rather fleshy lip.
"Similar to Elleanthus dressleri but differs in the bidentate leaf apex with a long mucro versus a relatively short mucro, a single pair of ovoid calli versus 2 pairs of globular calli, a three lobed lip versus entire and a deeply bifid middle lobe versus a shortly bifid lip apex." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Epilyna peruviana Szlach. & Kolan. 2016
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 53: 18 2016 as Epilyna peruviana
*Orchid Rev. 125: 57 J M H Shaw 2017
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:352 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Epilyna peruviana drawing fide
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