Stelis lindenii Lindl. 1846 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 Photo by © Orquivalle and their Colombian Orchid Website

Common Name Linden's Stelis [Belgian Orchidist 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 2500 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with erect, stout, clumped ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal tubular sheaths and another longer, inflated sheath in the upper third and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below more or less abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to several, as long to longer than the leaf, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, racemose, distichous, laxly to densely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate, apiculate floral bracts with folded sides

Synonyms Stelis grandis Rchb.f 1855; Stelis ochreata Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 not = S purdieaei; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008

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