Elleanthus weberbauerianus Kraenzl. 1916 SUBGENUS Calelyna SECTION Calelyna Szach & Dudek 2023

Drawing by Calaway Dodson

Common Name Weberbauer's Elleanthus [German Botanist in Peru 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Canar province of Ecuador and Piura province of Peru at elevations of 1600 to 2900 meters as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with terete, vaginate below, rather densely leafy above stems enveloped completely by striae, adpressed sheths and carrying many, subcoriacous, suberect, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate elliptic, acute to subacuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-cymbiform, acute to obtuse, decreasing in size upwards, more than twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple to pink, sparsely pubescent externally flowers.

"A large sized plant with rose to violet colored flowers. Its lip is longer than wide, suborbicular in outline, emarginated to bilobed in front with erose-denticulate margins, basally with a pair of confluent calli, appearing to to a single onw, sulacate on the outer surface." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

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