Stelis brevilabris Lindl. 1845 SECTION Humboldtia Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

Drawing? Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

EARLY

Common Name The Short Lipped Stelis

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a shortly repent rhizome and prolific, erect ramicauls partially enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-oblong, coriaceous, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer, fall and early winter on a to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, racemose, secund, many flowered inflorescence arising through a small spathe with cucullate, acuminate floral bracts that cover the pedicel.

Synonyms Dialissa inversa (Schltr.) Brieger 1976; Stelis inversa Schltr. 1921; Stelis serpens Luer & Hirtz 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as S inversa; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S inversa; Fieldiana Botany Orchids of Peru Vol 33 1st supplement Schweinfurth 1970; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Dialyssa inversa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 as S serpens; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as Stelis serpens drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 as Stelis serpens drawing fide; Orchidaceae Stelis A Compendium Swartz Duque 2008 ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009;

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