Stellilabium astroglossum [Rchb.f] Schlechter 1914 Photo courtesy of Ruth Guillard and Her Orchid Website

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Common Name The Star-Shaped Lip Stellilabium

Flower Size 1/4" [6.5 mm]

FOund in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 850 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and 3 to 4, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves held in a loose fan and blooms on an erect, scapose, few successively flowered, 4" [10 cm] long, racemose inflorescence occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Dipterostele tanii (Dodson) Garay & G.A.Romero 1998; Stellilabium tanii Dodson 1980; *Telipogon astroglossus Rchb.f 1854; Trichoceros astroglossus Lindl. ex Benth. & J.D.Hkr 1883;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Telipogon astroglossus drawing; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 3 2008 photo