Stelis hirtella (Garay) Luer 1981 SECTION Stelis
Photo by Jolie and Jolies Orquidees WebPage
Photo by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page
Drawing by Oscar Duque
Common Name The Bristley Stelis
Flower Size .15" [4mm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru? in high montane forests as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, fibrous, dilated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, tridenticulate, attenuate below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the winter on 1 to 3, as long as or a bit shorter than the leaf, racemose, distichous, sparsely several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has broadly cucullate, apicaulate, dorsally carinate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, clearish gray-green flowers.
"A small plant with long hairy sepals, a thin concave lip and an entire, unilobed stigma." O Duque 2006
Synonyms *Apatostelis hirtella Garay 1979; Stelis hirta Lindl. 1859
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 3 Lindley 1859 nom. illeg.;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S hirta;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 189 Garay 1979 as Apatostelis hirtella;
* Phytologia 49: 229 Luer 1981
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide
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