Stelis modesta Barb.Rodr.1881 SECTION Disticha S eliator Alliance

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Common Name The Modest Stelis

Flower Size tiny

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil on mossy trees in humid forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by a single, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear-oblong, subobtuse and tridenticulate apically, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 3.2" [8 cm] long, slender, subdistichous, several flwoered inflorescence arising through an acute spathe and with infundibular below, cup shaped above floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Stelis Sw., A Compendium Duque 2008

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