Stelis bigibba Schltr. 1920 SECTION Stelis TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name The Two Humped Stelis

Flower Size

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-ligulate, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, secund, 2” [5 cm] long including the .8” [2 cm] long peduncle, subdense, many flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with cucullate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 84 Schlechter 1920; Figuren Atlas - Orchideenfloren der südamerkanischen Kordillerenstaaten 1929 drawing fide;

Orquidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 drawing fide;

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