Elleanthus tonduzii Schltr. 1910 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Laterales Garay 1978
Photo by © Francisco Morales
Drawing by © Hamer
Common Name Tonduz' Elleanthus [Orchid Collector In Central America 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Alajuela and Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, Chiriqui province of Panama and Choco' department Colombia in montane cloud forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations of 960 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with much branching, stiff stems carrying thin, plicate, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, long acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm] long, flexuous, laxly few flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, green, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Characterized by the well separated lip calli and the lacerate margins of the lip."
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
" Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 567 Schlechter 1910
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 677 Hamer 1982 drawing good;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 photo ok;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:318 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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