Elleanthus setosus Schltr. 1922 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
TYPE Drawing by © Rudolf Schlechter
Drawing by © Roberto Vasquez
Common Name The Very Bristley Elleanthus [refers to the fringed lip]
Flower Size
Found in Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2900 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, terete, dark purple stems carrying plicate, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate towards the apex, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, strobiliform, several to amny flowerred inflorescence with prominent, red, margins lightly incurved and erose, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying white flowers with a purple anther.
"Characterized by funnel shaped leaf sheath, coriaceous leaves, relatively small lip that is more or less canaliculated with erose-fimbriate apical margin and approximate corpuscles."
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 34 Schlechter Bolivia 1922;
Figuren-Atlas zu den Orchideenfloren der südamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten [Beiheft 57, Repert. Spec. nov. Regn. veg., 1929], t. 13, fig. 46 Schlechter 1929 Drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 320 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:272 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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