Stelis hallii Lindl. 1834 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Drawing by Oscar Duque
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Hall's Stelis [English Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Colombia, Azuay department of Ecuador and Peru in montane forests on trees or moss covered rocks at elevations of 1200 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths an carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear oblong to elliptic oblong to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, narrwoing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms on a solitary rarely 2, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, fractiflex, loosely many flowered inflorescence with infundibular-cucullate, shorter to as ong as the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the small habit with elliptic leaves doubly exceeded by a densely many flowered raceme of small flowers. The broadly ovate sepals are not remarkable. The rounded, single veined petals are mostly composed of a broad transverse callus. The transverse lip is broadly oblong , much broader than long." Luer 2007 as S stormii
Synonyms Stelis gladiata Lindl. 1859; Stelis hallii var. minor C.Schweinf. 1951; Stelis stormii Luer & Endara 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Bot. (Hooker) 1: 13 Lindley 1834;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 9 Lindley 1859 as S gladiata;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 15: 18 Schweinfurth 1951 as S hallii var minor;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S hallii var minor;
Fieldiana Botany Vol 33 1st Supplement to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970;
Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007 photo ok;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S gladiata drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as S stormii
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as S stormii drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 ;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 77 #3 2013 photo fide;
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