Stenoptera acuta Lindl. 1840
Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and The Atrium Biodiversity Information System Website
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Acute Stenoptera
Flower Size
Found in northern Brazil and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 3000 to 3650 meters as a large to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 10, basal, oblanceolate-ligulate to broadly oblanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the broad petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a stout, terminal, erect, peduncle to to 3' 4" [1 meter] long, glabrous below, sometimes sparingly pubescent above, rachis elongate-cylindric, tomentose, to 12" [30 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, smooth or ciliate on the margins floral bracts that are as long to slightly longer than the flowers.
Synonyms Stenoptera elata Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 447 Lindley 1840
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 54 Schlechter 1921 as Stenoptera elata
Flora Brasilica XII, II: 139 Hoehne 1945 as S elata;
Flora Brasilica XII, II: 140 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica XII, II: tab 79 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 85 Schweinfurth 1958;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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