Elleanthus fractiflexus Schltr. 1921 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

EARLY

Flower Size The Fractiflex Elleanthus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru on steep embankments in very wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a terete, erect, cane-like stem carrying thin, plicate, strongly veined, distichous, acute leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a terminal, sub-globose, densely many flowered inflorescence with purple floral bracts.

Synonyms Elleanthus tenellus L.O.Williams 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 5 Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 370 Dodson 1980;