Elleanthus stenophyllus Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Laterales Garay 1978

TYPE drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name The Slim Leaved Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador without locational data as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, leafy above the base stem carrying linear, mucronate, plicate leaves that blooms on a terminal, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, racemose, susessile, densely many flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 4 times longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"Similar and often cited as a synonym with E rhodolepsis but it has linear to linear-lanceolate, mucronate leaves that are slightly constricted 1/3rd from the apex." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

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;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:322 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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