Stelis planipetala Ames 1938 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Karl Senghas
Type Sheet by © Oakes Ames
Common Name The Flat Petal Stelis
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1130 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, tridenticulate, attenuate below into the short, sulcate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, arising through a spathe, subsecund, to 6.8" [17 cm] long including the 3.2" [8 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with cucullate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.
Identified b y its narrow leaveds, its long congested inflorescence, the thin flate petals and the deeply saccate lip." O Duque 2008
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 6: 13 Ames 1938 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
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