Stelis microchila Schltr. 1911 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
Common Name or Meaning The Small Lipped Stelis
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador in lower primary montane to montane rainforest to pine-oak forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool gowing epiphyte with an erect ramiucal enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblanceolate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, racemose, 4" [10 cm] long, congested, distichous, secund, many flowered inflorescence with obliquely funnel-shaped, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Stelis barbata Rolfe 1913; Stelis bryophila Schltr. 1923; Stelis cinerea Schltr. 1918; Stelis costaricensis Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 16. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S bryophila; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 16. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S costaricensis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 278. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S costaricensis; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Orchids of Guatemala Correl & Ames 1952 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as S microchyla; drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 326 Dodson 1980 drawing fide as Stelis barbata drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Stelis barbata drawing/photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as S barbataphoto fide; ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1- 2) Solano DICIEMBRE 1993 drawing fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as S barbata photo fide; Icones Orchidaceaerum Plate 686 Hagsater & Soto 2002 as S barbata drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater etal 2005 photo ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 photo as Stelis barbata drawing/photo ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Vol 2 Parsons and Gerritsen 2013 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 13(3) 2014 as S barbata photo fide; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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