Stelis schmidtchenii Schltr. 1924 SECTION StelisDrawing by © Oscar Duque

Common Name Schmidtchen's Stelis

Flower Size .1” [2.5 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations around 300 to 1200 as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool, caespitose growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, filiform, somewhat fractiflex, 2.8” [7 cm] long including the 1 to 1.4” [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with small, pale green, membraneous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying light green flowers with abundant long red hairs and a greenish pink central apparatus.

"The flowers of S schmidttchenii have a certain resemblance to those of S calotricha because of the red hairs in the petals." Oscar Duque 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 27: 157 Schlechter 1924;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as S calotricha not = drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as S calotricha not = drawing good;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not - S calotricha;

Orquidaeceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide

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