Elleanthus zamorensis Garay 1978 SECTION Cephaleleyna

TYPE Drawing by © Leslie Garay

Common Name The Zamora Elleanthus [Refers to the province where the orchid was discovered Zamora-Chinchipe]

Flower Size

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador in wet tropical forests in tree tops at elevations around 1800 meters as a giant sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, ususally pendent, terete, lower half covered with striate sheaths, the upper half leafy stem and carrying several, narrowly lanceolate, ovate lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, plicate, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, capitate, subglobose, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate,long-acuminate, 4 times longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white to pale rose flowers.

"Similar to E casapensis but differs in the furfuraceous sepals and the petals have erose margins versus in E casapensis the sepals are glabous and the petals are entire. Also similar to E sodiroi but it has an obovate-flabellate lip with entire margins and a glabrous disc." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Evelyna zamorensis [Garay] Szlach & Dudek 2023

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fl. Ecuador 9(225: 1): 109 Garay 1978 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:333 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Evelyna lindenii drawing fide

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