Stelis parvilabris Lindl. 1845 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008

Another Drawing Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Small Lipped Stelis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2900 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphtye with erect ramicauls almost completely enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliprtic-oblong, subacute, tridenticulate, narrowing below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, [4 to 9 cm] long, racemose, distichous, subdensely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate-navicular, acute bracts that cover the pedicel.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville and Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good;

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