Stelis porpax Rchb.f. 1854 SECTION Stelis Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website

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

Common Name The Shield Grip Stelis

Flower Size .175" [4 mm]

Found in northern Venezuela and Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1300 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphtye with approximate, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, spathulate, attenuate towards the base into the small, petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time fo the year on a solitary, shorter than the leaf, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, racemose, distichous, pauciflorus almost down to the base inflorescence arising through a small, acuminate spathe and has cucullate, shortly apiculate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville and Garay 1965 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo good; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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