!Stenia pallida Lindley 1837 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

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Common Name The Pale Stenia

Flower Size 1 3/4 to 2 " [4.5 to 5.5 cm]

Found in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Northern Brazil at elevations of 400 to 1800 meters in wet montane forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with rigid, lightly recurved, obovate-oblong, to elliptic-oblong leaves held in a fan-shape that can bloom at any time of the year with an axillary or basal, short to 2 2/5" [6 cm], erect to arching, single flowered inflorescence with a pendulous flower.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 23: sub t. 1991. 1837; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968 photo fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 DRAWING fide; Orchids of Venezuela Dunsterville 1987 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0183 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0383 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 photo fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide

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