Stelis thecoglossa Rchb.f. 1866 Photos by © The Wilson Botanical Garden Website

Type Drawing and collection sheet Drawing by © Ames and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Box Shaped Lip Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama in high montane forests as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, distichous, loosely, to 11" [27.5 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a small, acute spathe from below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique retuse floral bracts.

Synonyms Stelis colioglossa Schltr. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer. 93-94 Rchb.f 1866; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing

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