Epidendrum elleanthoides Schltr.1920 GROUP Elleanthoides SUBGROUP Ellanthoides Type for the group
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Diego Calderon and his Flickr Colombia Birding website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
Common Name The Elleanthus-Like Epidendrum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in subparamo on tree and bushes in high cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with terete, branching stems with distributed all along the stem, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, obliquely acute, margins crenate erose, dorsally carinate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, paniculate, arching-nutant, zigzag, 2" [5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and 3 to 6 per branch, distichous, successive, with 1 to 2 open at any one time flowers.
"Epidendrum elleanthoides belongs to the GROUP Elleanthoides SUBGROUP Ellanthoides characterized by the many branching thin canes, with long, narrow, grass-like leaves, the paniculate inflorescence with hair-thin peduncles, small f1owers, oblong petals and a fleshy lip which embraces lhe column. The species has very small flowers sepals .148 to .172" [3.7 to 4.8 mm] long with the sides of the transversely elliptic to trullate, apiculate, lip embracing the column without overlapping and the oblong petals about six times longer than broad. It closely resembles Epidendrum guacamayense Hágsater & Dodson which has flowers nearly twice as large, the segments narrower and the petals about 15 times longer than broad, and the lobes of the lip overlapping aboye the column. Epidendrum saccatum Hágsater has shorter leaves, and a very broad, reniform lip with a sac-like base and without ornamentation. Epidendrum montispichinchense Hágsater & Dodson has leaves about twice as wide and larger flowers, with the nectary forming a wide, rounded cavity. Epidendrum hesperium Hágsater has larger flowers, sepals .28" [7 mm] long, and an entire lip about as long as it is wide and somewhat overlapping over the column. Hagsater etal 2006
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg Beih 7: 132 Schlechter. 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 246 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren -Atlas 57: 178 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Bot Notiser 130 Lojtnant 1977; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 139 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 423 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 461 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 483 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 491 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 718 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 735 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 740 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 743 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 775 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 830 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 961 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1449 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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