Stelis maloi Luer 1981 SECTION Stelis Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

TYPE Drawing Drawings by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Malo's Stelis [Ecuadorian Collector of species current]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in southern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2, loose, imbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing and cuneate into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through fall on a loose, simultaneously 2 to 3, few flowered, 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, racemose inflorescence arising from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique foral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide

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