Stelis pachystachya Lindley 1859 SECTION Stelis

Drawing by © Oscar Duque

Common Name The Thick Densely Flowered Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Santander department of Bolivia at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2, fibrous, dilated, tubular, acute sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, contracted below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms on a single, erect, arising through a membraneous spathe, flowering to the base, 6.4 to 8" [16 to 20 cm] long, erect, congested, distichous, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with cucullate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green, pubescent flowers.

"Characterized by a stout habit with broad oblong leaves and its long, densely many flowered raceme." Duque 2008." Luer & Vasquez 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

>* Fol. Orchid. 8: 13 Lindley 1859;

Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;

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