Stelis glossula Rchb.f. 1870 SUBGENUS Apatostelis Duque 2008 Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Tongue-Like Stelis [probably refers to the elongate dorsal sepal]

Flower Size 1/4" [6.5 mm]

This ID is fairly certain.

Found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in scrub forests on small branches at elevations of 40 to 450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with short, erct ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, tridenticulate apically, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, much longer than the leaf, to 3.6" [to 9 cm] long, racemose, distichous, densely many flowered inflorescence with adpressed, infundibular, obtuse floral bracts and carrying the flowers in the upper third of the inflorescence.

Synonyms Apatostelis glossula (Rchb.f.) Garay 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1103 Dodson & Hamer 1984 as Apatostelis glossula drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchid Vol 5 Dodson 2004 maybe; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008;

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