Elata

There are elfin forests on the ridge tops exposed to trade winds from the Caribbean, for example, at 700 m of Clusia salvinii, Magnolia sororum, Lacistema aggregatum and Psychotria elata. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beautiful orchids such as the endemic giant Cattleya, Cattleya warscewiczii, or the Butterfly orchid Psychopsis papilio, or the Swan orchid Cycnoches chlorochilon or the Holly Spirit orchid Peristeria elata are native to this ecosystem. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are Australian morels Morchella elata, sometimes known as black morels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some of the characteristic species of the ecoregion include emergent trees up to 60 m tall (Entandrophragma congoense, Pentaclethera eetveldeana, Pericopsis elata, Gilbertiodendron dewevrei), shrub species of Drypetes (D. calvescens, D. capillipes, D. chevalieri), and abundant lianas and rattans. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Above 900 m. in altitude, there are smaller trees and palms such as Pithecellobium longifolium, Euterpe precatoria, Geomoma oxicarpa and the arborescent fern Trichipteris procera; many vascular epiphytes, Vriesia elata, Guzmania lingulata, large-leaved understory plants Calathea insignis, Diffenbachia longisphata; mosses and hepatics, Octoblepharum albidum, Leucomium compressum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

M. testa fusiformi-turrita; spira elata, conica; epidermide pallide olivaceo induta, rufo-fusca, pulcherrime maculata, maculis saepe in lineis undulatis longitudinalibus dispositis; anfractibus planis, longitudinaliter plicatis, plicis aequalibus regularibus subdistantibus, ad suturas nodulosis; apertura oblongo-ovata, antice effusa; labio subincrassato; labro simplici, acuto. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A. testa ovata; spira elata, acuta, tenui, cornea; anfractu ultimo magno, non ventricoso, transversim creberrime striato; apertura oblongo-ovali; labio callo tenui expanso obtecto; labro simplici, acuto. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unlike overseas, there seems to be only one type of morel that grows here, Morchella elata, the black one. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nam & in Caira, altissima montis cacumina niuibus semper candentia esse perhibentur: & in Beragua quidem similiter, sed 5000 passuum in coelum elata, quæ niuibus nunquam liberentur, cum tamen partibus tantum decem ab æquatore distent. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Nam & in Caira, altissima montis cacumina niuibus semper candentia esse perhibentur: & in Beragua quidem similiter, sed 5000 passuum in coelum elata, qu� niuibus nunquam liberentur, cum tamen partibus tantum decem ab 鎞uatore distent. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Perhaps the most effective of all is one called Gastrodia elata or in Chinese “Tian Ma.” ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

_B. elata_ is especially valuable because of its deep blue flowers. ❋ Unknown (1930)

The huge trees which border the road have their stems and branches nearly hidden by orchids and epiphytes – chiefly that lovely and delicate one whose likeness to a hovering dove won for it the name of the "Flower of the Holy Ghost," an orchid (Peristeria elata) which lives but for a day, but in its brief life fills the air with fragrance. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

Mitrasacme elata, and all the other little plants I have before mentioned, were growing in the stringy-bark forest. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)

The beauteous long lake in front, about North East from me, its most distant East shores adorned with dark, high forests of stately trees; North and South almost endless green plains and meadows, embellished with islets and projecting promontories of high, dark forests, where the pyramidal Magnolia grandiflora, Palma elata and shady Oak conspicuously tower. ❋ Unknown (1823)

The trees are of the lofty kind, as the grand Laurel Magnolia, Palm elata, Liquid-amber styraciflua, Fagus sylvatica, Querci, Juglans hiccory, Fraxinus, and others. ❋ Unknown (1823)