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Orchid Species: Stelis alta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis alta is an orchid species identified by Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2002.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by a loose, tubular sheath and 2 shorter sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute to subacute, sessile, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 16 to 23.2 [40 to 58 cm] long, subdense, secund, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a small spathe at the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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