!Elleanthus lancifolius C.Presl 1827 Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Sword-Shaped Leaf Elleanthus
Flower Size .4" [1cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around [500] 800 to 2700 [3000] meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with erect, cane-like, terete stems enveloped completely by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying towards the apex, plicate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous, thin leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a pendent to horizontal, flexuous, very fractiflex, few to several [6 to 9] flowered, racemose inflorescence with large, loosely arranged, deciduous, far exceeding the ovary and flower floral bracts
Synonyms Elleanthus laxus Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 14: 388. Schlechter 1916 as E laxus; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 10. Costa Rica 1923 as E laxus; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 80. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E laxus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 371 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1312 Atwood 1989 as E laxus drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo not = E fractiflexa; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 #830 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 440 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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