Stelis intermedia Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Stelis
Plant Photos by Americo Docha Neto
Drawing Drawing by Dunsterville
EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The In Between Stelis
Flower Size 1/16" [0.15 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Minas Gerais state of Brazil in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains as well as Huanuco and Junin departments of Peru at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with densely fascicled stems enveloped basally by 2 to 3 long, tubular sheaths and carry a single, apical, elliptic-linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse with a minute tridenticulate apex leaf that is long and attenuate below that blooms in the early winter in situ on a solitary, to 7 1/4" [to 18 cm] long, many flowered, arcuate or flexuous and very slender inflorescence with very minute flowers.
This determination is OK. Said to be synomonous with S drosophila by Kew but Foldats separates and I concur at this time. If they are synomonous S intermedia takes precedence.
Synonyms Stelis petropolitana Rchb.f. 1866; Stelis petropolitana var. latifolia Hoehne 1919
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 46 Poepp. & Endl. 1836;
Bot. Ergebn.: 151 Rchb.f 1866 as S petropolitana;
Relat. Commiss. Linhas Telegr. Estratég. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5(9): 29 Hoehne 1919 as S petropolitata var latifgolia;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing ok;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Orquideas de Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo [Espirito Santo Brazil] Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 2 2013 photo fide
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