Stelis oligantha Barb.Rodr. 1881 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by © Pabst
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Sparse Blooming Stelis
Flower Size
Found in southern Minas Gerais and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil in wet forestsas a mini-miniature sized, cool growing caespitose epiphyte with fasciculate, apparently nude ramicauls carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly oblong, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, longer than the leaf, arising through a diminutive spathe peduncle [1.9 cm] long, rachis [1.9 cm] long, slender, slightly flexuous, subsecund, moslt simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with cucullate shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small, whitish flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 93 Barb Rodr. 1881
Flora Brasilense 3(4): 364 Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasilense 3(4): Tab 82 Cogniaux 1896 Drawing
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
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