Elleanthus aureus (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb.f. 1863

Photo by © Alfonso Doucette and The Orchidstudium Website

Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador

Photo by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Golden Elleanthus

Flower Size 3/8" [.93 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1400 to 2800 to 3300 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with compressed, lenticular in cross-section, vaginate below leafy above stems carrying rather densely many, subcoriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, to lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, sessile, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, cylindric, slightly arcuate, densely many flowered inflorescence with reddish purple, ovate-cymbiform, acute to subobtuse bracts.

Synonyms *Evelyna aurea Poepp. & Endl. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945; The Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 9 1962 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo not = ?; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 2001 drawing good/photo good; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2012 drawin good/photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #1 2017 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo hmm?

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