Elleanthus sphaerocephalus Schltr. 1924 SECTION Cephaleleyna Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Flower Photos courtesy of Dr Leslie Garay Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Sphere-Headed Elleanthus

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte occuring along stream beds in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 2200 meters with an elongate stem carrying plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, articulate to the stem leaves and blooms in the fall on a terminal, 1" [2.5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence subtended with lanceolate, acuminate bracts and all the flowers in a conical bunch at the apex of the cane..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:17 Schlechter 1924; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004

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