Stelis calceolaris Garay 1979
SECTION Stelis
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Oscar Duque
Common Name The Small Shoe-Shaped Stelis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, close set ramicauls enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths andcarrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic-oblong, coriaceous, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect to slightly flexuous, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose, distichous, densly many flowered inflorescence arising through a cucullate spathe with obliquely infundibular, acuminate floral bracts that cover only a portion of the ovary.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 185 Garay 1979;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 drawing hmm
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