Eurystyles ananassocomus (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1925
SECTION Eurystyles
Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage
Drawing of E Borealis by R Jimenez © and The Herbario AMO Website
Photo by © Noel Gauntlett
Drawing by © Fawcett & Rendle
TYPE Drawing of E cristata by © Schlechter
EARLY 
Common Name The Pineapple-Like Eurystyles
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia and and Peru on tree trunks in cloud forests at elevations around 900 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool, pendent growing epiphyte with a basal rosette of 6 to 8, fleshy, translucent grey green, waxy, broadly lanceolate to ellipic-lanceolate, acute, ciliate-pectinate leaves that blooms in the winter to early spring on a pendulous, densely puberulent, 1.28" [3.2 cm] long, as long as the leaves, terminating in a very short, capitate, to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, ciliate-fimbriate margins, longer than the flowers floral bracts.
E ananassocomus is different from all its Central American allies in the lip lacking auricles and the slight development or absence of the rostellum.
Synonyms Eurystyles borealis A.H.Heller 1968; Eurystyles cristata (Schltr.) Schltr. 1925; *Stenoptera ananassacomos Rchb.f. 1863; Synanthes borealis (A.H.Heller) Burns-Bal., H.Rob. & Merc.S.Foster 1985; Trachelosiphon ananassocomos (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1920; Trachelosiphon cristatum Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 21: 131 Rchb.f 1863 as Stenoptera ananassacomos
Flora of Jamaica vol 1: 34 Fawcett & Rendle 1910
Flora of Jamaica vol 1: pl 5 #5-6 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 425 Schlechter 1920 as Trachelosiphon ananassocomos
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 69 Schlechter 1920 as Trachelosiphon cristatum;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 39 Schlechter 1925;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 39 Schlechter 1925 as Eurystyles cristata
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: taf 22 #83 Schlechter 1929 as Trachelosiphon cristatum drawing fide;
Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 279 A.H.Heller 1 1968 as Eurystyles borealis
AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 8 1968 as Stenoptera ananassocomos photo fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 745 Hamer 1982 as E borealis drawing ok;
Brittonia 37: 160 Burns-Bal., H.Rob. & Merc.S.Foster 1985 as Synanthes borealis
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America: 273 Hamer 1988 as E borealis drawing ok;
ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1-2): 270 DICIEMBRE 1993 as E borealis
ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1-2): 271 DICIEMBRE 1993 as E borealis drawing
ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1-2): 272 DICIEMBRE 1993 as E borealis photo fide;
Orchid Flora of Puerto Rico & VI Ackerman 1995;
Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 585 Hagsater 2002 as E borealis drawing ok;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Orchidoideae Part 2 Vanillioideae Pridgeon, Cribb. Chase and Rasmussen 2003 as E borealis drawing/photo good;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 148 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 149 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019drawing fide;
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