Stelis yanganensis Luer & HirtZ 2002 SECTION Stelis Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name The Yangana Stelis [A town in southern Ecuador]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador at elevations around 2450 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, subcongested, subflexuous, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul and has several flowers open simulataneously.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002

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