Elleanthus tovarensis Ames 1922 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Helge Vindenes and her Flickr Orchid Photo website
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name The Tovar Elleanthus [A town in Aragua state of Venezuela]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Aragua state of Venezuela, Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Morona-Santiago and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 3270 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with erect cane-like stems carrying several towards the apex, coriaceous, lanceolate, plicate, 5 nerved beneath, acuminate, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, shorter than the terminal leaf, racemose, ovoid to cylindric, sessile, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cymbiform floral bracts that are longer than the flowers and decrease in size towards the apex and carrying rose to violet colored flowers.
"Similar to E amethestinoides but the apical leaf surpasses the inflorescence and the sepals are densely furfuraceous-lepidote versus the apical leaf is shorter than the inflorescene and the sepals are sparsely furfuraceous."Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing ok;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing good;
Genera Orchidacearum Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and rasmussen 2005 drawing ok;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:290 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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