Elleanthus tricallosus Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925 Photos by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Three-Calli Elleanthus

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rainforests at elevations of 1100 to 2600 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial and occasional epiphyte on mossy tree trunks with an erect, caespitose, slender stem enveloped almost completely by close, striate-nervose sheaths and carrying narrowly lanceolate, plicate, 5 to more nerved, rigid, widest below the middle, long acuiminate to the unequally tridenticulate apex, cuneate narrowed below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, distichous, densely few flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orch. 8: 51. 1925.