Elleanthus stolonifer Barringer 1985 SECTION Chloidelyna (Reichb. f.) Garay

Flower Closeup Photos by © Walter Schug

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Kerry Barringer

Common Name The Keikei Bearing Elleanthus

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in very wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a thin, erect, delicate, terete, leafy above the base stem carrying 6 to 10, ligulate, acute, conduplicate, sheathing striate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the winter on a 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with elliptic, acuminate, lower bracts leaf like and .4" [1 cm] long, upper bracts .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long, distichous, lanceolate, striate, chartaceous, acuminate, at least twice longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Separated from others by the relatively short, acute leaves and short inflorescence with distant, distichous bracts and plants that form keikis. E stolonifera is the smallest orchid in the genus and the only with rooting stolons.

Synonyms Adeneleuterophora stolonifera (Barringer) Dudek & Szlach. 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Brittonia 37: 287 Barringer 1985 drawing fide;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica anad Panama Dressler 1993;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

Richardiana 11: 5 Szlach & Dudek 2010 as Adeneleuterophora stolonifera;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:339 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora stolonifera drawing fide

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