Stelis alata Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Apatostelis Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids Home Page

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Common Name The Winged Stelis [refers to the sepals]

Flower Size 1/6" [4 mm]

Found from Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte that occurs around 1000 to 2900 meters with stout, erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the attenuate petiolate base leaf and blooms on an apical, 2" [5 cm] long, fasciculate, racemose, many flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves and arises from the apex of the ramicaul.

Synonyms Apatostelis alata (Lindl.) Garay 1979; Stelis tenuilabris Lindl. 1859,

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as S tenuilabris drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, Compendium Duque 2008;

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