Stenia saccata Garay 1969 Photos by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Sack-Like Stenia [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fan-shaped leaf clusters with narrow to broadly oblanceolate, abruptly acute at the obtuse apex, attenuate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on 1 to several successive, axillary, pendant, slender, terete, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Chaubardiella saccata (Garay) Garay 1969; Dodsonia saccata (Garay) Ackerman 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Orch. Rev. 77: 152. 1969; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 424 Dodson 1982 as Dodsonia saccata drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 as Dodsonia saccata Drawing ok?; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 as Dodsonia saccata

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