Salpistele brunnea Dressler 1979 SUBGENUS Salpistele
Plant and Flower Photos by Milan Vagner ©
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Common Name or Meaning The Brown Salpistele
Flower Size .21" [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 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.
Synonyms Stelis brunnea (Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Luer 1991 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 drawing/photo; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis brunnea
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