Stelis dunstervilleorum Foldats 1968 SECTION Stelis

Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay

Common NameDunsterville's Stelis [American Orchid Enthusiast and Collector in Venezuela later 1900's]

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found in Venezuela at elevations around 2500 to 2650 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout, proliferating ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, erect , coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, subacute to obtuse, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, congested, distichous, 10" [25 cm] long including the 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul with cucullate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 404 Foldats 1968

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as S popayanensis drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as S popayanensis not drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S popayanensis drawing fide;

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