Stelis aemula Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Dmitry Demin

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Common Name The Similar Looking Stelis

Flower Size .15" [4.5mm]

Found from Costa Rica to Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 1600 meters meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, elongate ramicauls enveloped basally by several, close, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, round and retuse apically, gradually narrows below into a short, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered, racemose inflorescence that is longer than the leaf and has small floral bracts.

Synonyms Stelis perplexa Ames 1922; Stelis sarcodantha Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 170. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 325 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1271 Dodson 1985 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1286 Dodson 1985 as Stelis perplexa drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, Compendium Duque 2008 NOT SURE;

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