Stelis palmeiraensis Barb. Rodr. 1881 SECTION Stelis
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista.
Drawing by Oscar Duque
Common Name The Mt Palmeira Stelis [A mountain in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil]
Flower Size .1" [3 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in virgin forests on tree branches as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by two tubular sheath with the uppermost being much longer and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising through a spathe, racemose, 2" [5 cm] long, secund, laxly many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, clear yellow, glabrous flowers.
Related to S porpax but disitnguished by its small size, its trilobed, excavate lip and its susullate petals.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide
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