Stelis standleyi Ames 1925 SECTION Stelis
Photo by Bogarin and The Epidendra Website
Photo by J & L Orchids and their J & L Orchids Website
Drawing by Oakes Ames
Common Name Standley's Stelis [American Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cartago, San Jose and Alajuela provinces of Costa Rica and Panama in montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing, epiphtye with stout, crowded, erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 3 tubular, slightly dilated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, tridenticulate, attenuate below into the 1" or so petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a much longer than the leaf, arising through a spathe, racemose, subdistichous, 6.8 to 8" [17 to 20 cm] long, many flowered inflorecence with infundibular, acute, tinged with purple floral bracts that conceal the pedicel and carrying purple flowers.
"A tall slender plant similar to S tonduziana but differs in the smaller flower, 3 nerved sepals and differently shaped petals.
Synonyms Stelis persimilis Ames 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orch. 9: 21-23. Ames 1925
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 2: 14 Ames 1934 Stelis persimilis Drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 190 Garay 1979 as Apatostelis standlei; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27(7-9): 191. Garay 1979 as Apatostelis persimilis;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 Drawing good
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