Epidendrum elleanthoides Schltr.1920 GROUP Ellanthoides Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Elleanthus-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in subparamo on tree and bushes in high cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with terete, branching stems with distributed all along the stem, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, obliquely acute, margins crenate erose, dorsally carinate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, paniculate, arching-nutant, zigzag, 2" [5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and 3 to 6 per branch, distichous, successive, with 1 to 2 open at any one time flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter. 1920; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 830 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing ok

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