Stelis gracilifolia C. Schweinf. 1955 SECTION Stelis
Collection sheet by © Skutch/Schweinfurth
Drawingby © O Duque
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EARLY 
Common Name The Thin Leaved Stelis
Flower Size
Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 50 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with short, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, close, tubular, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ascending, coriaceous, linear to linear-obloanceolate, obtuse and minutely apiculate apically, gradually narrowing below into the more or less distinct, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a solitary, erect, peduncle 1.76" [4.4 cm] long, rachis 5.28" [12.7 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with abbreviated, broadly infundibuliform, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying maroon flowers.
"Allied to S latipetala but differs in having shorter and more slender stems and leaves and twice larger flowers.” Schweinfurth
Synonyms Apatostelis gracilifolia (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 17: 38 Schweinfurth 1955
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 188 Garay 1979;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
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