Stelis rubens Schltr. 1910

Inflorescence

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photos by Solano/drawing by Soto and The Herbario AMO Website

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Common Name The Reddish Stelis

Flower Size .15" [2.5 mm]

Found in Jalisco, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Chiapas states of Mexico in tropical rainforests at elevations of 350 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with short, terete ramicauls completely enveloped by 2 tubular, glabrous, oblique, obtuse, slightly prominent veined, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly linear-oblanceolate, round, bilobed, small mucronate iun the middle of the apex, fleshy-coriaceous, attenuate to the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through late fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, thin, to 8" [20 cm] long, to 70 flowered inflorescence carrying 2 rows of simultaneously opening flowers 180 degrees apart.

This species has color variable flowers from pale green to greenish white to suffused with reddish-purple

Synonyms Apatostelis rubens (Schltr.) Garay 1979; Stelis liebmannii Rchb.f. ex Hemsl. 1934; Stelis tuerckheimii Schltr. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 564 Schlechter 1910;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 564 Schlechter 1910 as S tuerkheimii; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 2: 1 Rchb.f ex Hemsl. 1934 as Stelis liebmannii;

Orchids of Guatemala Ames Correll 1952

Orchids of Guatemala Ames Correll 1952 drawing ok to photo, fide to drawing;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #5 1979?;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 190 Garay 1979 as Apatostelis rubens;

Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Apotostelis rubens drawing ok;

Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 98 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;

ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 13(1- 2) Solano and Soto Arenas . DICIEMBRE 1993 drawing/photo fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:267 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis tuerckheimii not = P rubens;

Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;

Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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