Elleanthus smithii Schltr.1920 Photo by © Andreas Phillip

Common Name Smith's Elleanthus

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1300 to 3000 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a simple stem carrying erect-patent, lanceolate, plicate, 7 nerved, acuminiate leaves that blooms on an erect to suberect, subsessile, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence with oblong, obtuse floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing hmm/photo fide

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