Elleanthus sodiroi Schltr. 1916 SECTION Cephaleleyna

Photo by Andreas Kaye © and his Flickr Orchid Photo website

partial shadeCold Winter

Common Name Sodiro's Elleanthus [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Colombia and Pichincha province of Ecuador in primary forests at elevations around 2500 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, leafy above the basal third, basal part competly enveloped by remnants of leaf sheaths canes carrying towards the apex, 7 to 10, rather close set, leathery, plicate, erect to suberect, lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, racemose, capitate, sessile, 2" [5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic, acute to acuminate, hyaline margined, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts that decrease in size towards the apex

"Recognized by the narrow lip calli shared by E casapensis and E zamorensis but E sodiroi differs in the obovate-flabellate lip with entire margins and a glabrous disc." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna sodiroi (Schltr.) Dudek & Szlach. 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 387 Schlechter 1916

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 37 Schlechter Ecuador 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 as E sp #4037 photo fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata= E sodiroi;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo/drawing good;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 drawing/photo good;

Richardiana 11: 9 Dudek & Szlach 2010 as Evelyna sodiroi

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:332 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Evelyna sodiroi drawing fide

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