Stelis collina Schltr. 1922 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter/Ames and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Hill Loving Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Panama at elevations below 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, thin, secund, 4.4 to 5.6” [11 to 14 cm]long including the 2” [5 cm] long peduncle, laxly, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 15 Schlechter 1922 drawing fide;

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

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