Elleanthus aurantiacus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Elleanthus
- Species
- Elleanthus aurantiacus
- Scientific Name
- Elleanthus aurantiacus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Elleanthus aurantiacus
Ellianthus aurantiacus is an orchid (family Orchidaceae) native from Costa Rica to Peru. It is unique among orchids in being a shrub with repeated orders of branching. The plant gets about three feet (0.9 meters) in height and not quite as wide.
The species was described in 1863 by the botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach as a part of the Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers work Annales Botanices Systematicae. The basionym is Evelyna aurantiaca as described by John Lindley in 1845.
This epiphytic plant is mostly found in wet tropical biomes from Nicaragua in the north through the rest of Central America including Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama. The range extends into northern South America including Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru in the south.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Elleanthus albiflorus
- Elleanthus amethystinoides
- Elleanthus amethystinus
- Elleanthus ampliflorus
- Elleanthus archilae
- Elleanthus aristatus
- Elleanthus arpophyllostachys
- Elleanthus asplundii
- Elleanthus aurantiacus
- Elleanthus aureus
- Elleanthus auriculatus
- Elleanthus bifarius
- Elleanthus blatteus
- Elleanthus bogotensis
- Elleanthus bonplandii
- Elleanthus bradeorum
- Elleanthus brasiliensis
- Elleanthus capitatellus
- Elleanthus capitatus
- Elleanthus caravata
- Elleanthus caricoides
- Elleanthus carinatus
- Elleanthus caroli
- Elleanthus caveroi
- Elleanthus cephalotus
- Elleanthus cerrojefensis
- Elleanthus cinnabarinus
- Elleanthus columnaris
- Elleanthus condorensis
- Elleanthus confusus
- Elleanthus congestus
- Elleanthus conifer
- Elleanthus cordidactylus
- Elleanthus coriifolius
- Elleanthus crinipes
- Elleanthus decipiens
- Elleanthus deuterohirtzii
- Elleanthus discolor
- Elleanthus dressleri
- Elleanthus dussii
- Elleanthus ecallosus
- Elleanthus ecuadorensis
- Elleanthus emberanus
- Elleanthus embreei
- Elleanthus ensatus
- Elleanthus escobarii
- Elleanthus flavescens
- Elleanthus formosus
- Elleanthus fractiflexus and graminifolius
- Elleanthus furfuraceus
- Elleanthus gastroglottis
- Elleanthus glaucophyllus
- Elleanthus glomera
- Elleanthus gracilis
- Elleanthus grandiflorus
- Elleanthus haematoxanthus
- Elleanthus hirsutis
- Elleanthus hirtzii
- Elleanthus hookerianus
- Elleanthus hymenophorus
- Elleanthus isochiloides
- Elleanthus jimenezii
- Elleanthus kalbreyeri
- Elleanthus kermesinus
- Elleanthus killipii
- Elleanthus koehleri
- Elleanthus laetus
- Elleanthus lancifolius
- Elleanthus lateralis
- Elleanthus laxifoliatus
- Elleanthus leiocaulon
- Elleanthus lentii
- Elleanthus ligularis
- Elleanthus linifolius
- Elleanthus longibracteatus
- Elleanthus luteynii
- Elleanthus maculatus
- Elleanthus magnicallosus
- Elleanthus magnipetalus
- Elleanthus malpighiiflorus
- Elleanthus muscicola
- Elleanthus myrosmatis
- Elleanthus norae
- Elleanthus oliganthus
- Elleanthus orozcoae
- Elleanthus ortizianus
- Elleanthus pastoensis
- Elleanthus peruvianus
- Elleanthus petrogeiton
- Elleanthus phorcophyllus
- Elleanthus poiformis
- Elleanthus porphyrocephalus
- Elleanthus purpureus
- Elleanthus reichenbachianus
- Elleanthus rhizomatosus
- Elleanthus rhodolepis
- Elleanthus robustus
- Elleanthus roseus
- Elleanthus ruizii
- Elleanthus scharfii
- Elleanthus scopula
- Elleanthus setosus
- Elleanthus smithii
- Elleanthus sodiroi
- Elleanthus sphaerocephalus
- Elleanthus steyermarkii
- Elleanthus stolonifer
- Elleanthus strobilifer
- Elleanthus sytsmae
- Elleanthus tandapianus
- Elleanthus teotepecensis
- Elleanthus tillandsioides
- Elleanthus tonduzii
- Elleanthus tovarensis
- Elleanthus tricallosus
- Elleanthus ventricosus
- Elleanthus venustus
- Elleanthus vernicosus
- Elleanthus vinosus
- Elleanthus virgatus
- Elleanthus wageneri
- Elleanthus wallnoeferi
- Elleanthus weberbauerianus
- Elleanthus wercklei
- Elleanthus yungasensis































































































































































