Stelis morganii Dodson & Garay 1980
SECTION Stelis
Photo by Cloudforest Orchids and Cloudforest Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Oscar Duque
Common Name Morgan's Stelis [American Co-Discoverer of Species current]
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in very wet, montane cloud forests on mossy trunks at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, repent ascending epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular, lightly expanded apically, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrwoly elliptic, acute gradually narrowing into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, erect to suberect, 1.6" [4 cm] long, many flowered, racemose inflorescence cucullate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying whitish green to pink colored flowers.
" Distiguished by its creeping rhizome, ramose stems, oblong leaves and its racemes borne on the backs of the leaf." O Duwue
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 328 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawinmg fide
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