Stelis peliochyla Barb.Rodr. 1881 SUBGENUS Stellata SECTION Disticha eliator alliance Duque 2008 Photo by © Alexandre Medieros and The Orquidario Virtual Website
Flowers and Plant Photo by © Luiz Filipe Varella.
Common Name The Lilac Lipped Stelis
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
I am fairly sure of this photo determination.
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in primitive forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls partially enveloped by an elongate, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, racmose, secund, [8 t 9 cm] long, pauciflorus inflorescence arising through an acute spathe with cucullate, apiculate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1976 drawing ok; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing ok/photo ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo [Espirito Santo Brazil] Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 2 2013 photo good
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