Stelis oblonga (Ruiz & Pav.) Willd. 1805 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Concave S oblonga alliance Duque 2008 Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Oblong Stelis [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphtye with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal, short sheaths and another longer, inflated sheath in the upper third and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, racemose, distichous, congested, to 4.8" [to 12 cm] long including the 2" [5 cm] long peduncle, many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate, apiculate floral bracts with folded sides

Synonyms *Humboldtia oblonga Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Stelis apiculata Schltr. 1920; Stelis dodsonii Luer 2002; Stelis euspatha Rchb.f. 1855; Stelis fissa Lindl. 1859; Stelis floribunda Kunth 1816; Stelis insignis Ames 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as S euspatha; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1920 as S apiculata; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S apiculata; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S floribunda; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Fieldiana; 1st Supplement to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Fieldiana Botany Vol 33 1st Supplement to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orquideas de Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 as S euspatha; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 770 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 as S dodsonii drawing fide; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S euspatha drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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