Stelis butcheri Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha purpurescens alliance
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Common Name Butcher's Stelis
Flower Size .25" [6 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 t o3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, marrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms spring and fall on an erect to suberect, slenser, [6 to 9 cm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from near the base of the ramicaul with a thin bract above the base and has a tubular floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchidaceae Stelis Duque 2008 drawing fide
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