Elleanthus trilobatus Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023 Drawing by © S Nowak 2023

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Common Name The Three Lobed Elleanthus

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Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Boyaca and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia and Guyana on tree trunks at elevations around 2000 to 3550 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, delicate, subterete, partially concealed by leaf sheaths lower part of the stem leafless and carrying up to 9 lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, obliquely tridentate apically, cuneate narrowing below into the sessile base leaves leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, abruptly long-acuminate, concave 5 times longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"This species along with E xanthocomus E aurantiaca and E longibracteatus all have apically, 3 lobed lips but E xanthocomos has in addition lacinate-dentate margins of the lip lateral lobes." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna xanthocoma (Rchb.f.) Rollisson 1875

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Schedul. Orchid. 8: 53 Ames & C Schweinfurth 1925

Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966 photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:279 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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