Elleanthus maculatus (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1863

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Spotted Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1400 to 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphtye with an erect stem carrying plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clsping base leaves that blooms on a terminal, several flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are longer than the ovary and the flower

Synonyms Elleanthus harlingii Garay 1953; Elleanthus lupulinus (Lindl.) Rchb.f 1863; Evelyna lupulina Lindl. 1846; *Evelyna maculata Lindl. 1845;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 1 1977 photo as E lupulinus; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as E lupilinus drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Icomes Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 233 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as E lupulinus drawing ok; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 as E lupulinus photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as E lupulinus photo fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Vasquez & Ibisch 2004; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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