Stelis anthracina Luer & Hirtz 2002 Section Humboldtia Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Coal Black Stelis

Flower Size .1" [3mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erct stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2 shrt loose, tubular shetahs and another longer one above and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, subcongested, distichous, successively single, many flowered 3 5/8" long to 4 3/8" [9 to 11 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising through an annulus

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century Of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part One Luer 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids VOl 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide;

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