Stelis maloi Luer 1981

Plant and Flower Photos by © Milan Vágner

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

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

This photo determination is suspect.

Found in Southern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2, loose, imbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipti-obovate, subacute, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing and cuneate into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms on a loose, few flowered, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo not/maybe?; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008;

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