Stelis impostor Luer & Hirtz 2004 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Photo by © Francisco Tobar and his Ecuagenera Orchid Website

Common Name The Impostor Stelis [refers to its mistaken identity] to the flowers placement on the inflorescence]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, loose, distichous, slightly flexuous, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul and has , oblique, acute, tubular floral bracts and carries several flowers open simultaneouslyflowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing ok

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