Orchidaceae

Elleanthus C.Presl

First published in Reliq. Haenk. 1: 97 (1827)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 1-672. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 2009 Redden, K.M. et al. [2556], Guyana K000718153 No
Sep 1, 1987 Bureau v. h. Boswezen ( B.W.) [775], Suriname K000395960 No
Stannard, B.L. [L 4], Venezuela 26131.000 No
Taylor, P. [16302], Ecuador 41517.000 No
Taylor, P. [16291], Ecuador 41592.000 No
Taylor, P. [16384], Ecuador 41641.000 No
Taylor, P. [13243], Ecuador 41654.000 No
Fleming, V. [VF 22], Ecuador 61878.000 No
Plowman, T. [5645], Peru 61887.000 No
Spruce, R. [5395], Ecuador K000201488 Yes
Bureau v.h. Boswezen ( B.W.) [775], Suriname K000395956 No
Spruce, R. [s.n.], Peru K000201489 Yes
Spruce, R. [s.n.], Peru K000201490 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images