Stelis frontinensis O.Duque 1997 SECTION Humboldtia
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Duque and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name The Frontino Stelis [A Community in Antioquia Colombia]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forest at elevations around 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the upper third and 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect to arching, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the long-channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on 1 to 3, erect, slender, distichous, to 4.8" [to 12 cm] long including the 3" [7.5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with amply navicular-apiculate, oblique shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying red flowers.
"Distinguished by the red flowers with witha shallow, pouched synsepal, semicircular petals and its narrow lip." O Duque 2008
Synonyms Stelis venusta Luer & Hirtz 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 20 #3 pg 347–348, 350, pl. 11, 3 Duque 1997 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis Subgenera Acianthera A Second Century of Stelis of Ecuador Epibator Ophidion Zootrophion Luer 2004 as S venusta drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador part IV Luer 2009
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