Elleanthus wageneri (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name Wagner's Elleanthus [German Plant Collector in Venezuela 1800's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Distrito Federal state of Venezuela in rainforests at elevations of 1400 to 3000 meters as a robust, medium to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect to suberect, rather stout stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying in the apical half, several, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate-attenuate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with purplish -white, oblong to ovate-oblong, acute, lower ones much longer than the flowers floral bracts.
"Similar to Elleanthus arpophyllostachys but E wageneri has glabrous, rather dull greenish yellow with an orange reddish spot on the lip and a purple anther while E arpophyllostachys has showy, orange red to golden yellow flowers. E wageneri has somewhat larger flowers with a single callus on the lip, attenuate towards the apex and sulcate on the dorsal surface. The lip callus of E arpophyllostachys is a pair of approximate corpuscles which are rounded at the apices." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Evelyna wageneri Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bonplandia 2: 21 Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna wageneri;
*Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 474 Rchb.f1862;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing ok;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;
Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo ok;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:263 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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