Elleanthus robustus (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1862 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

More Open Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Robust Elleanthus

Flower Size 1/8” [.4 cm]

Found in Mexico, south to Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru as a large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with no psuedobulbs occuring in wet montane forests at 660 to 3130 meters with a simple, stout stem with lanceolate, long-acuminate, very large, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring on a very compact, cylindric, to 7 1/4" [18 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence that arises from 2 to 3 large, imbricating, erect sheaths with oblong-lanceolate, acute, imbricate floral bracts that are shorter than the flowers

Synonyms *Evelyna robusta Rchb. f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 061 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 4 2006 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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