Elleanthus rhodolepis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Magnicallosae Szach. & Dudek 2023

Drawing by © A Krol 2023

Part shade Cold LATE Spring

Common Name The Red Scaled Elleanthus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador on lava flows at elevations around 2100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, vaginate below several leaves above stem carrying 6 to 8, rigid, linear to linear-lanceolate, suberect , mucronate, slightly constricted 1/3 from apex leaves that blooms in the late spring on a sessile, terminal, cylindric, suberect to arcuate recurved, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with more or less spreading, lanceolate, long-acuminate, furfuraceous externally, purplish, longer than the furfuraceous ovary and flowers floral bracts and carrying purplish, furfuraceous externally flowers that are hidden within the bracts.

"Easily recognized from others in the section by linear to linear-lanceolate, leaves that are mucronate, slightly constricted 1/3 from the apex and rigid." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms *Evelyna rhodolepis Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 711 Rchb.f 1852 as Evelyna rhodolepsis;

*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 482 Rchb.f 1863 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] Orchidaceae Garay 1978 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:305 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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