Elleanthus ventricosus Schltr. 1917 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Magnicallosae Szach. & Dudek 2023

Drawing by Calaway Dodson

MIDEARLY

Common Name The Thick Bellied Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Azuay and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador and Chachapoyas department of Peru at elevations of 1600 to 4100 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing, branching terrestrial with erect, branching, branches erect to ascending, leafy and commonly short, glabrous stems enveloped by striate, adpressed sheaths and carrying rather stiff to rigid, striate-rugose, lanceolate-elliptic, abruptly pinched in to contracted near the apex, acuminate, cuspidate, basally tapering leaves that blooms on a terminal, capitate in youth, peduncle to .8" [2 cm] long, rachis flexuous, loosely to densely many flowered inflorescence with spreading, lanceolate-cymbiform, aristate, often much longer than the flowers floral bracts. \