Stelis bractescens Garay 1979 SECTION StelisPhoto by © The Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideologia Website

Common Name The Bracted Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia Colombia in montane forests at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 short, basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptic-oblong, striated, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the canaliculate petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, distichous, to 12" [30 cm] long, including the 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a speathe and has large, navicular, acute floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms Stelis bracteata Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 drawing ok

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