Stelis opercularis Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name The Covered Stelis

Flower Size .1 to .2" [3 to 5.5 mm]

This photo determination is not certain.

Found in Colombia SE Ecuador in rainforests at elevations around 700 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 fibrous, tubular sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-obovate, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the twisted, petillate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, erect to arching, racemose, distichous, several flowered inflorescencearising through a small nodular spathe with infundibular, acute, red floral bracts.

Synonyms

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

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