Stelis connata C. Presl 1858 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Grown Together Stelis?

Flower Size .2" [2 mm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 1350 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect stems enveloped by 3 tubular leafless sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, to 8" [20 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with short, infundibular bracts.

I am fairly sure that this determination is incorrect as the sepals are not connate so I await further references.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0381 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing hmm;

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