Stelis coronaria Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name The Crown Stelis [refers to the rim around the central apparatus of the lip]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Carchi, Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the middle third and another 1 to 2 sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a strict, erect, 4 to 6 " [10 to 15 cm] long, congested, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with an annulus from below the apex of the ramicaul with short, tubular floral bracts and with opposite facing flowers

CAUTION THe picture quality does not allow for a psoitive ID so please use with caution

Synonyms

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

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