Stelis paulula Luer & H.P.Jesup 2007 SECTION Stelis Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Very Small Stelis

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, loose, flexible, flexuous, hairlike, to 4.8" [12 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively 1 to 2, many flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with oblique acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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