Stelis crescentiicola Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Apatostelis Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

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Common Name The Crescentia [family Bignoniaceae] Living Stelis

Flower Size.1" [3mm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in lowland forests at elevations of 300 to 1350 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by several tubular scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute or obtuse leaf and blooms in the winter on a suberect to arcuate, racemose, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with minute, infundibuliform floral bracts and small green to yellow green flowers.

Synonyms Apatostelis crescentiicola (Schltr.) Garay 1979; Stelis isthmii Schltr. 1922; Stelis praemorsa Schltr. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 16. Panama Schlechter 1922; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1102 Dodson & Hamer 1984 as Apatostelis crescenticola drawing fide; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008;

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