Stelis quinquenervia C.Schweinf. 1943

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Common Name The Five Nerved Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in humid montane forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped mostly by 3 tubular, fibrous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, subobtuse to rounded, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, arching, distichous, laxly to densely, to 8.8" [22 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with infundibular floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Orquideas de Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 photo ok; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok;

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