Stelis tonduziana Schltr. 1918 Photo by © Nate Emery and His Flickr Photo Website

Common Name Tonduz's Stelis [Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size .32" [8mm]

Found in Costa Rica in montane wet forests at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3, inflated, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-oblong, obtuse and apically tridenticulate, cuneate below into the caniculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a subdistichous, erect to arched, 4.8 to 11.2" [12 to 28 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and with large, cucullate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying subnutant, transverse or non resupinate flowers

Synonyms Apatostelis tonduziana (Schltr.) Garay 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Stelis Sw A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing hmm; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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