Elleanthus tricallosus Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925 SUBGENUS Hymenophora
Photos by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Blanche AMes
Common Name The Three-Calli Elleanthus
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Risaralda and Cauca departments of Colombia in premontane rainforests to oak forests to cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 2600 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphyte on mossy tree trunks with an erect, caespitose, slender stem enveloped almost completely by close, striate-nervose sheaths and carrying narrowly lanceolate, plicate, 5 to more nerved, rigid, widest below the middle, long acuminate to the unequally tridenticulate apex, cuneate narrowed below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, distichous, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, densely few flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate to shortly acuminate, longer than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
"The species has very showy purple flowers supported by green floral bracts, combined with a lip as long as wide, with denticulate-erose margins and glabrous sepals." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
* Schedul. Orch. 8: 51. Ames & Schweinfurth 1925 ;
Schedul. Orch. 8: 52. Ames & Schweinfurth 1925 Drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #2 2006 photo fide;
Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:223 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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