Stelis crystallina Ames 1935 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by © Ames and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Shiney Stelis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica at elevations around 975 to 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by several closely adpressed tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer an erect, slender, 4.8" [12 cm] long, including the .3.6" [9 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence and has infundibular, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts .
"Recognized by the long narrow leaves, its long arched inflorescnce ad its peculiar lip with its shaggy dentate apex which is unique in the genus." O Duque 2008
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3(4): 45-49, 53 Ames 1935
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3(4): 45-49, 53 Ames 1935 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 drawing fide
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