Stelis costaricensis Rchb.f. 1855 SECTION Stelis
Photos by © Bogarin and The Epidendra Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Costa Rican Stelis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1625 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with ascending, slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 3 loose, imbricating, infundibuliform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, acute to obtuse, subcuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on 1 to 4, erect, very densely, distichous, to .6 to 1” [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long including the peduncle, shorter than the leaf, mostly simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with minute, infundibular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying clear yellowish-green, glabrous flowers.
"Distinguished by its place of origin, small size, broad leaves, short inflorescence, univeined petals and its monolobular stigma." O Duque 2008
Synonyms Apatostelis costaricensis (Rchb.f.) Garay 1979; Stelis minutiflora Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925; Stelis neominutiflora J.M.H.Shaw 2014; Stelis platycardia Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bonplandia (Hanover) 3(15-16): 225 Rchb.f 1855;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 18 Schlechter 1923 as S platycardia;
Schedul. Orch. 8: 18-19. Ames & Schweinf. 1925 as S minutiflora;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 188 Garay 1979 as Apatostelis costaricensis;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok;
Orchid Rev. 122: 78 J M H Shaw 2014 as Stelis neominutiflora
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