Stelis brachyrachis Luer & Hirtz 2004 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Cold EARLY Fall

Common Name The Short Rachis Stelis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Morona Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 loose, tubular sheaths with another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early fall on an erect slightly flexuous, distichous, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescnece

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing

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