Stelis vulcanica Schltr. 1915 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Monostachyae Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name or Meaning The Volcanic Stelis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

I am fairly certain of this Photo determination.

Found in Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 300 meters , as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and a carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, retuse, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 10" [25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising from the leaf base and has large flowers with 3 conspicuous, teeth at the apex of the lip

Synonyms Stelis nanegalensis Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 333 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1290 Dodson 1985 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as S nanegalensis photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as S vulcani; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008

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