Stelis bracteata Schltr. 1923 SECTION Dialissa
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Common Name The Bracteate Stelis [refers to the large, ovate, acuminate floral bracts]
Flower Size
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama at elevations around 1050 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-ligulate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a distichous, erect, subdense short to .6” [1.5 cm] long with a very short peduncle, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate floral bracts
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 171 Schlechter 1923;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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