Stelis brevilabris Lindl. 1845 SECTION Labiatae S brevilbris Alliance Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

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 on a [to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, racemose, secund, many flowered inflroescence 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 33 1st supplement Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 as S serpens; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as Stelis serpens photo ok; Orchidaceae Stelis A Compendium Swartz Duque 2008

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