Elleanthus conifer (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Rchb.f. 1862 Photo by Alfred Toth and his Pbase Orchid Photo WebsiteCopyright © 2011 All rights reserved.

Another Inflorescence Photo by Isaias Rolando and the Club Peruano Orchid Society WebsiteCopyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Pinecone-Like Elleanthus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 600 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte at tree bases with pendent slender, cane-like, leafless below, loosely several leaves above stems carrying coriaceous, suberect, narrowly linear-ellipitc, long acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, cone-like then elongate, ovoid to cylindrical, slightly arcuate, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with spirally arranged, successively opening pink flowers

Synonyms Elleanthus conchochilus Schltr.1921; *Evelyna conifera Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Evelyna conifera; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921 as E conchochilus; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 45 Peru Schlechter 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as E conchochilus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok; Die Orchideen lieferung #13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae Brieger 1983 as E conchochilus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 447 Dodson 1989 drawing ok; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide;

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