Elleanthus poiformis Schltr. 1923 SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay
Photo by © Hamer
Drawing by © Franco Pupulin and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Grass-Like Elleanthus
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in montane wet forests, cloud forests and on rock cliffs near water at elevations of 1200 to 1850 meters as a mini-miniature to minature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped by leaf bases carrying 4 to 5, erect-patent, narrowly-linear, grass-like, obtuse leaves that can bloom at most any time of the year on a terminal, erect, disitchous, rachis flexuous and minutely furfuraceous, usually to 1.6" [to 4 cm] long, laxly 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with rigidly ovoid, obtuse, exceeding the length of the flower floral bracts and carrying the smallest flowers of the genus
"Similar to Elleanthus linifolius but differs in the rachis and ovary furfuraceous throughout versus only furfuraceous on the adaxial surface." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
SynonymsAdeneleuterophora poiformis (Schltr.) Dudek & Szlach. 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 164. 1923;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 676 Hamer 1982 drawing fide;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Corell 1952;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing good;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Richardiana 11: 5 Dudek & Szlach 2010 as Adeneleuterophora poiformis
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Adeneleuterophora poiformis;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:340 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora poiformis drawing fide
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