Salpistele brunnea Dressler 1979 SUBGENUS Salpistele
Photos by Milan Vagner ©
Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Brown Salpistele
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests on mosssy trunks at elevations around 800 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with suberect ramicauls enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, tridenticulate and somewhat apiculate apically, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petilolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through spring on a creeping, subpendant, 3.1" [7.7 cm] long, sinuous, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular bract.
"Distinguished by the brown sepals sometimes marked with yellow-green or with yellow=green margins, a deeply concave dorsal sepals, a slender, acutely reflexed midlobe of the lip and a comparitively large or expanded, triangular surface of the apex of the column." Luer 1991
Synonyms Stelis brunnea (Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 drawing fide/photo on Front Cover as S lutea fide/in article fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis brunnea; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
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