Stelis stevensonii Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website

Type Drawing Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Stevenson's Stelis [American Past president of American Orchid Society current]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, strict, subcongested, distichous, 4" [10 cm] long, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe with an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul and has oblique, obtuse floral bracts and carries most of the flowers open simultaneously all held in 2 ranks.

CAUTION the lip in the photo seems too short to be this species so please use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing ok;

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