Elleanthus deuterohirtzii J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Epilyna
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name Hirtz's Second Elleanthus [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .08" [2mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador in wet lower montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short, cane-like, much branching stem enveloped by distichous, imbrication sheaths and carrying oblong-ovate, obliquely bidentate, mucronate, grading smaller above into bracts, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms at most anyt time of the year on an apical, to .08" [2mm] long, successively 6 to 9 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"This is the only species of the section with 2 pairs of subglobbular calli at the lip base."
Synonyms Epilyna hirtzii Dodson 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 493 Dodson 1989 as Epilyna hirtzii drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodoson as Epilyna hirtzii photo/drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:350 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Epilyna hirtzii drawing fide
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