Stelis vulcani Rchb.f. 1878 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Volcano-Living Stelis

Flower Size .15" [3.2 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-oblong, coriaceous, subacute, tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, erect, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, subdistichous, subdense, many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe

I am not sure of this determination.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo not=S vulcanica; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008

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