Stelis oblongifolia Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Concave S purpurescens alliance Duque 2008 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

Very close to if not synomynous with S pastoensis and S superposita, I leave them separate for now.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo ?

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