Stelis lanceolata (Ruiz & Pav.) Willd. 1805 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Pedales Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Lanceolate Stelis [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .3" [8 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 3000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a repent to ascending, clumping, prolific ramicauls enveloped by tubular, dilated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect to slightly flexuous, to 3.2 to 4.8" [to 8 to 12 cm] long, racemose, distichous, laxly many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with obliquely cucullate, apiculate to beaked floral bracts that cover only a portion of the ovary.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008

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