Stelis adrianae Luer 2002 SECTION Stelis Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Adriana's Stelis [Ecuadorian Collectors Wife Current]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1650 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ascending-erect, stout, fascicled ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, purple, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, two ranked, 8" [20 cm] long, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorecence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo ok

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