Elleanthus myrosmatis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Flower Size

Flower Size

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 400 to 2800 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a stout, simple stem carrying several, lanceolate, strongly acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal, strobiliform, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence subtended by 2 triangular, navicular spathes and has oblong-lanceolate, acute, imbricating floral bracts. with minute floral bracts and nodding flowers.

Synonyms Evelyna myrosmatis Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001;