Stelis tridactyloides Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Stelis 2002
Photos by Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Three Finger-Like Stelis
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacte to obtuse, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, distichous, racemose, 4 3/4 to 8 3/4" [12 to 22 cm] long including the 1.2 to 2.8” ,3 to 7 cm] long peduncle, densely and nearly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus at the leaf base and carrying short, broad floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century Of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part One Luer 2002 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok;
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