Stelis furfuracea F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by © Oscar Duque
Drawing by © Oscar Duque
Common Name The Scale Covered Stelis [refers to the sepals inner surface]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2800 to 3500 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a 3, fibrous tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, narrowly canaliculate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe, erect, peduncle 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, rachis 4.8 to 5.2" [12 to 13 cm] long, distichous but presenting the flowers all to one side, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with cucullate, apiculate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers yellow green, scented flowers.
Distinguished by its long slender inflorescence, its narrowly elliptical scaly sepals and its umbonate petals." O Duque 2008
Synonyms Stelis furfuracea F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 447 F Lehn & Kraenzl. 1899;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
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