Stelis filiformis Lindl. 1859 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by © Oscar Duque
Collection sheet determined by © E A Christenson
Common Name The Filiform Stelis [refers to the thin inflorescence]
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Venezuela, Bolivia and Amazonas state of Brazil as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carryung a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, arsing from a small acute spathe, filiform, slightly flexuous, 3.6 to 4.4" [9 to 11 cm] long, racemose, multiflowered inflorescence with cucullate, acute or shortly apiculate, longer to as long as the ovary floral bracts carrying greenish, glabrous flowers from the base to the tip of the stem.
CAUTION!! The photo does not correspond to the drawing in Duque's Compendium so please use with caution!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fol. Orchid. 8: 6 Lindley 1859;
Flora Venezuelana Vol 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidiane Vasquez & Ibisch 2000;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz; A Compendium Duque 2008
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