Elleanthus smithii Schltr.1920 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Andreas Phillip
Photos by © Jay Pfahl Cundinamarca 2020
TYPE Drawing by © Rudolf Schlechter/Blanche Ames
Common Name Smith's Elleanthus
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Magdalena, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Santander, Caqueta, Cauca and Choco departments of Colombia and Pichincha province of Ecuador in premontane forests, cloud forests and on rocky slopes in hill savannah at elevations of 1300 to 3000 meters as a giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a simple, terete, vaginate below, leafy above stem carrying variable, erect-patent, lanceolate, plicate, 7 nerved, acuminate, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, suberect to arcuate nodding, spicate, subsessile, 6" [15 cm] long, densely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence with suberect to spreading oblong, obtuse floral bracts that are as long as to longer than the flowers.
"Characterized by the adpressed leaf sheaths, very large leaves, long, densely many flowered inflorescence, relativelyshort floral bracts and more or less rose colored flowers often with somewhat deeper sepals and white lip with yellow reddish to deep orange spots near the lip apex."
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 46 1920
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing hmm/photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide;
LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:267 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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