Elleanthus blatteus Garay 1978Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cockroach-Like Elleanthus

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in very wet montane forests at elevations of [600] 1100 to 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial on clay roadbanks and embankments at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters with a cane-like stemenveloped completely by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying narrowly ovate, stiffly erect, plicate, veined below, acute clasping basally leavse that blooms in the fall on a subsessile, subglobose inflorescence with a few to several flowers. leaves

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References W3 Tropicos, Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 445 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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