Elleanthus steyermarkii Barringer 1987SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay

Holotype Collection sheet by Steyermark

Common Name Steyermark's Elleanthus [American Botanust in Venezuela and Ecuador 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Napo and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador in montane wet forests at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature to minature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, very delicate, simple, terete, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 6, linear-lanceolate, triapiculate, the central mucro longer than the laterals, leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, spicate, subcapitate to .4" [to 1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, magnta, striate, hyaline margined, at least twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

"Similar to Elleanthus isochiloides but differs in the smaller leaves 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm versus 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, and a much smaller inflorescence .4" [1 cm] versus 1.6" [4 cm] long." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

SynonymsAdeneleuterophora steyermarkii [K Barringer] Szlach & Dudek. 2023

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Syst. Bot. 12: 165 K Barringer 1987

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:345 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora steyermarkii drawing fide

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