Elleanthus strobilifer (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb.f. 1863 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
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Photo by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orcid Photo Website
Common Name The Gyroscope Elleanthus
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Huanuco department of Peru on embankments in open, sunny, exposed brush abd grass covered rocky slopes at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters as a giant sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with slender, unbranched towards the apex, terete, leafy in the upper half stems carrying 5 to 7, thin, narrowly ovate-elliptic, long acute, gradually narrowing below into the sessile leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, cylindric, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with large, acute, foliaceous spathes below and thin spreading, ovate, acute, cymbiform bracts that are much longer than the flowers.
"Very similar to E robustus but differs mostly in the glabrous lip. lamina
Synonyms *Evelyna strobilifera Poepp. & Endl. 1836
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 32 Poepp & Endl 1836 as Evelyna strobilifer;
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 483 Rchb.f 1863
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen lieferung 13 Schlechter/Brieger 1983 drawing ok;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 0051 Dodson 1989 drawing hmm;
Native Colombia Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as E aff strobilifera photo ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko and Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret & etal 2012 drawing good/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:254 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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