Stelis aprica Lindl. 1937 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Concave Aprica alliance Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Luis Felipe Varela
Common Name The Sun-Loving Stelis
Flower Size 1/6" [4 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in low to high elevation, wet montane foersts at elevations of 70 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with robust ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 scarious, tight sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate, sulcate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring through an annulus with an erect, to 4 1/5" [11 cm] long, many [30] flowered inflorescence with tight, tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Stelis catharinensis Lindl. 1836; Stelis crassifolia Lindl. 1842; Stelis cubensis Schltr. 1923; Stelis cuspidilabia Schltr. 1923; Stelis desportesii Urb. 1918; Stelis domingensis Cogn 1910; Stelis gutturosa Rchb.f. 1854; Stelis herzogii Schltr. 1913; Stelis hymenantha Schltr. 1912; Stelis micrantha Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis microglossa Rchb.f. 1850; Stelis miersii Lindl. 1843; Stelis minutiflora Rchb.f. 1842; Stelis polystachya Cogn.1909; Stelis rodriguesii Cogn. 1896; Stelis seleniglossa Schltr 1923; Stelis tippenhaueri Urb. 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as S gutturosa; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as S polystachya; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as S domingensis; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as S micrantha drawing fide; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 17. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S cuspidilabia; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 97. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S selleniglossa; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as S hymenantha; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as S hymenantha; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as S miersii; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 not = S schomburgkii; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing hmm; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as S hymenantha drawing hmm; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo okish; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 not = S schomburgkii; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1272 Dodson 1985 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 766 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Stelis cubensis; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as Stelis cubensis; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, Compendium Duque 2008 OK;
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