Stelis filiformis Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Rhomboidieae fendleri alliance Duque 2008 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name The Filiform Stelis [refers to the thin inflorescence]

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

The photo does not correspond to the drawing in Duques Compendium.

Found in Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil as a miniature sized epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carryung a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a filiform, slightly flexuous, [9 to 11 cm] long, racemose, multiflowered inflorescence arsing from a small acute spathe carrying flowers from the base to the tip of the stem

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Venezuelana Vol 2 Foldata 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidiane Vasquez & Ibisch 2000; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz; A Compendium Duque 2008