Stelis ciliaris Lindl. 1836 SECTION Stelis
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Another Flower in situ Cocora Colombia
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Common Name The Hairy Stelis
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nonduras, Nicaragua,Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Vnezuela, Ecuador and Brazil in hot lowlands and wet premontane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with stout sheathed ramicauls carrying a single, apical, linear to elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse and obliquely 3 toothed or retuse apically, erect, leathery leaf that tapers gradually, basally into a short petiole that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect to arching, loosely many flowered, slender, 10" + [25 cm+] long inflorescence with obliquely tubular, reddish floral bracts and has highly variable shaped flowers.
Synonyms Apatostelis ciliaris (Lindl.) Garay 1979; Apatostelis garayi Dunst. 1981; Apatostelis jimenezii (Schltr.) Garay 1979; Apatostelis pendulispica (Ames) Garay 1979; Stelis atropurpurea Hook. 1842; Stelis bruchmuelleri Rchb.f 1880; Stelis confusa Schltr. 1918; Stelis eublepharis Rchb.f. 1855; Stelis fimbriata R.K.Baker 1968; Stelis gratiosa Luer 1979; Stelis garayi (Dunst.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1990; Stelis jimenezii Schltr. 1918; Stelis micrantha var. atropurpurea (Hook.) Josst 1851; Stelis mystax-felis Luer & Toscano 2012; Stelis pendulispica Ames 1934; Stelis uhlii Chiron 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 353 Lindley 1837;
Beschr. Cult. Orchid.: 38 Joost 1851 as Stelis micranthas var atropurpurea;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as S atropurpurea;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 386 Schlechter 1918 as S confusa;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 389 Schlechter 1918 as Stelis jimenezii;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 2: 85 Ames 1934 as Setlis penduliscapa;
Orchids of Guatemala Ames Correll 1952 drawings good;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 55: 68 R K Baker 1968 as Stelis fimbriata drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 188 Garay 1979 as Apotostelis ciliaris;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 189 Garay 1979 as Apotostelis jimenezii;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 190 Garay 1979 as Apotostelis pendulispica;
Selbyana 5: 192 Luer 1979 sd Stelis gratiosa;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 # 9 1981 as Apatostelis garayii Drawing/photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1101 Hamer & Dodson 1984 as Apatostelis ciliaris drawing ok;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Apotostelis ciliaris drawing fide;
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 77: 556 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1990 as Stelis garayii;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as S jimenezii;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S garayii drawing good;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S pendulispica drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 drawing fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing good;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 17: 314 Luer & Toscano 2012 as Stelis mystax-felis; Richardiana 13: 127 Chiron 2013 as Stelis uhli;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide
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