Stelis vulcani Rchb.f. 1878 Photo by Duanne McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Another flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website
Another Drawing Drawings by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria 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 in the late summer through early winter on an erect, on 1 to 2, erect, to 7.2" [18 cm] long including the 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long pecduncle, subdistichous, subdense, many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with tubular, acute floral bracts
CAUTION I am not sure of either of these determinations so please use with caution!!.
Synonyms Stelis ecallosa Garay 1956
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; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing good; 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; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo not = S nanegalensis; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S ecallosa drawing good; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide
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