Stelis oblongifolia Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Concave S purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing Drawings by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Oblong Leaf Stelis [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a climbing, small to medium sized, cool to cold, growing epiphtye with superposed, ramose ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a solitary, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, subsecund, racemose, more or less fractiflex, laxly several flowered inflroescence arising through a small spathe concealed by the uppermost sheath and has large, cucullate, acuminate floral bracts and glabrous flowers
According to Luer this species has a variable lip and no 2 populations have the same details.
Very close to if not synomynous with S pastoensis and S superposita, but I leave them separate for now.
Synonyms Stelis chachapoyensis Rchb.f. 1855; Stelis coturcoensis Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S chachapoyensis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo okish to second drawing; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S chachapoyensis drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S coturcoensis drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide ; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo not?; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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