Stelis ascendens Lind. 1836 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Isochilae Ascendens alliance Duque 2008 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Ascending Stelis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 to 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with ascending, more or less remote ramicauls partly enveloped by 2 to 3, fibrous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, oblong elliptic, subacute obtuse gradually narrowing below in to the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on a twice as long as the leaf, loosely many flowered inflorescence.

Some references place this species under S jamesonii, I like Schweinfurth keep them separate.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 as a synonym of S jamesonii

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