Stelis hirtella (Garay) Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Apatostelis Duque 2008

Plant and FlowersPhoto by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Bristley Stelis

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

This ID is tenuous at best.

Found in Ecuador and Peru in high montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, fibrous, dilated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, tridenticulate, attenuate below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the winter on 1 to 3, as long as or a bit shorter than the leaf, racemose, distichous, sparsely several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has broadly cucullate, apicaulate, dorsally carinate floral bracts that envelope the pedicel.

Synonyms Apatostelis hirtella Garay 1979; Stelis hirta Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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