Stelis spathulata Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Concave Aprica alliance Duque 2008
Plant and Flowers Photo by S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Spathulate Stelis [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with a very short rhizome giving rise to approximate, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, adpressed, tubular sheaths the uppermost slightly dilated and carrying a single, apical, narrolwy elliptic-spathulate, coriaceous, rugose, coriaceous, obtuse a asymetrically tridenticulate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a solitary or geminate, as long or just shorter than the leaf, racemose, erect, floriferous almost to the base, inflorescence arising through a spathe with large, cucullate-navicular, acute, semi-imbricate floral bracts that envelope most of the pedicel and ovary.
Synonyms Stelis tricuspis Schltr. 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1907 as S tricuspis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 20. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S tricuspis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 98. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S tricuspis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 176. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S tricuspis; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 drawing plant only; Flora de Venezuela, Vol XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 332 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as S aff tricuspis drawing/photo hmm; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing good; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing good/photo ok
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