Elleanthus petrogeiton Schltr. 1921 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 3300 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, terrestrial with no psuedobulbs and an erect, branching, leafy stem with striate nervose sheaths and carrying erect, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, 7 nerved, papery, acuminate, minutely tridentate, narrowing below into the cuneate base leaves occuring in wet montane forests where it blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, sessile, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, acuminate floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 200 drawing hmm

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