Stelis atrorubens L.O.Williams 1942 SECTION Stelis

Drawing by © L.O.Williams

Common Name The Deep Red Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Cocle province of Panama at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender stems enveloped by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, distichous, many flowered inflorescence with infundibuliform, acute, scarious floral bracts.

Synonyms Apatostelis atrorubens (L.O.Williams) Garay 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 339 L O Williams 1942

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946drawing fide;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 187 Garay 1979 as Apotostelis atrorubens;

Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;

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