Stelis triangulabia Ames 1925 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Pontus Aratoun and his Miniature Orchid Website
Drawing by © Oscar Duque
HOLOTYPE Drawing and collection sheet
HOLOTYPE Drawing by © Ames and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Triangular Lip Stelis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size
Found in Alajuela province of Costa Rica in montane forests at elevations around 1050 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by a 2 to 3, closely adpressed tubular sheaths below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-lanceolate, tridenticulate, contracted below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising through a strongly complanate spathe, slender, subcongested, distichous, sublax, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long including the 2.4" [6 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with subacute to acute, longer than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying small, pale yellow flowers.
Closely allied to S parvula but disitnct in the triangularlip and very different petals and in the bracts of the inflorescence." Ames 1925
"A small plant with broadly ovate sepals and a triangular lip." Duque 2008
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orch. 9: 23 Ames 1925 drawing fide;
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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