Stelis intermedia Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha eliator alliance Duque 2008
Plant Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The In Between Stelis
Flower Size 1/16" [0.15 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Minas Gerais Brazil in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains as well as Peru at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with densely fqascicled stems enveloped basally by 2 to 3 long, tubular sheaths and carry a single, apical, elliptic-linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse with a minute tridenticulate apex leaf that is long and attenuate below that blooms in the early winter ensitu on a solitary, to 7 1/4" [to 18 cm] long, many flowered, arcuate or flexuous and very slender inflorescence with very minute flowers.
Said to be synomonous with S drosophila by some but Foldats separates and I concur at this time. If they are synomonous S intermedia takes precedence.
Synonyms Stelis petropolitana Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970;
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