Stelis bidentata Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 Photo by the The Belize Botanic Garden Website

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Two-Toothed Stelis

Flower Size 1/4" [7mm]

A miniature epiphytic Central American species that is found in wet montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters and as such is a hot to warm growing orchid with glabrous ramicauls enveloped basally by tubular, scarious sheaths and have a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that is apically bi or tri-dentate that blooms on an axillary, racemose, 4 1/2" [11 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising through a small annulusoccuring in the late spring and with the flowers opening at night and closing through the day.

Synonyms Stelis parvula Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1274 Dodson 1985 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1285 Dodson 1985 as Stelis parvula; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 581 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as Stelis parvula; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, Compendium Duque 2008 Can't tell;

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