Stelis triangulisepala C.Schweinf. 1951 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha eliator alliance Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Prem Subrahmanyam

Common Name The Triangular Sepal Stelis

Flower Size 1/10" [3 mm]

Matches Bennett & Christenson's and Duque's drawing in most all respects other than the pilose sepals, so this photo determination is quite suspect..

Found in Peru in wet montane forests on mossy trees at elevations of 750 to 2900 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 loose, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carries a single, apical, elliptic-oblong, basally tapering, minutely tridentate apically, coriaceous, gradually nasrrows below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, pedunculate, racemose, to 7 1/5" [18 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 582 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008

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