Stelis santiagoi Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Humboldtia Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name Santiago's Stelis [Ecuadorian Collector of species currrent]

Flower Size .1" [3 mm]

Found in SE Ecuador in rainforests at elevations around 800 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with ascending erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 t o3 basal, loose, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, congested, distichous, 8 to 12 " [20 to 30 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescneceariisng through an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul and subtended by a spathe.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007

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