Stelis globosa Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002 SUBGENUS Nexiopus Duque 2008 Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

Common Name The Globose Stelis

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Narino State of Colombia near Popayan in dense forests at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with fasiculate, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, imbricating sheaths and a loose, tubular sheath near the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, subacute, sessile, cuneate below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 2, slender, racemose, congested, more or less distichous, 6 to 8.4" [15 to 21 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and subtended by a broad spathe and infundibular floral bracts.

Synonyms Crocodeilanthe popayanensis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis popayanensis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Stelis popayanensis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as S popayanensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Luer 1998 as Pleurothallis popayanensis; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis popayanensis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Crocodeilanthe popayanensis

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