Stelis embreei Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Humboldtia

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Plant and Flower

Side View of Flower Photos by © Milan Vágner

Deep shade Warm Winter Spring

Common Name Embree's Stelis [Original Co-Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 950 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by a tubular shaeth and another aboveand carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, petiolate bsae leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a suberect, lax, successively few, single flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul and has oblique, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Stelis Luer 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide

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