Elleanthus xanthocomus Rchb.f. ex Hook. 1873 SUBGENUS Amethetinoidaea Szlach & Dudek 2023 Drawings by © Oledrzynska/A Krol 2023

Common Name The Hirsute Column Foot Elleanthus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Colombia and Tungurahua province of Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a medium to just large sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, leafless at the base, rather densely leafy above stem carrying ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, cylindrical, arcuate, to rarely reflexed, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with commonly spreading, ovate-lanceolate, cymbiform, acuminate, commonly exceeding the flower in length floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers.

"This species along with E trilobatus E aurantiaca and E longibracteatus all have apically, 3 lobed lips but E xanthocomos has in addition approximate lip calli." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna xanthocoma (Rchb.f.) Rollisson 1875

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bot. Mag. 99: t. 6016 Rchb.f 1873;

Nursery Cat. (Rollisson) 1875-1876: 22 Rollisson 1875 as Evelyna xanthocoma;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok;

Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok;

Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:278 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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