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

TYPE Drawing by © Barringer and The Epidendra Website

Part shade Cool Cold LATE Spring Summer

Common Name The Tillandsia Like Elleanthus [refers to the plant form]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in rain forests and wet lowlands at elevations around 30 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with caespitose, basally branching stems carrying distichous, linear, glabrous, conduplicate, minutely tri-apiculate apically leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, distichous, .28 to .48" [7 to 12 mm] long, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the terminal leaf and has spreading, imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, long acuminate, often hyaline margin floral bracts.

"Similar to Elleanthus lojtnantiana but differs in the flabelliform lip with the apical margin undulate, irregularily erose, with medium sized calli and no transverse ridges in front of them." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms Adeneleuterophora tillandsioides (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 and Panama Dressler 1993;

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

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:341 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Adeneleuterophora tillandsioides drawing fide

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