Stelis megantha Barb. Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Full shade CoolMID Spring EARLYFall

Common Name The Giant Anther Stelis

Flower Size 5/8" [.7 cm]

Found in Eastern and Southern Brazil in primitive forests at eleavtions of 1300 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a robust ramicaul carrying a single, ovate, acute, deeply keeled, emerald green leaf that blooms in the mid spring through early fall on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with fleshy, alternate flowers.

Synonyms Stelis macrochlamys Hoehne & Schltr. 1926

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994

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