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Orchid Species: Stelis pachyglossa

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Stelis pachyglossa is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
Genus
Stelis (Ste.)
Grex
pachyglossa
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Year
2001
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ORIGIN: A Central American, medium sized, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphytic, rarely terrestrial species found from Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica in lower montane rain forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A Central American, medium sized, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphytic, rarely terrestrial species found from Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica in lower montane rain forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters with stems that are enveloped with tubular bracts carrying a single, shortly petiolate, elliptic, acute leaves and blooms on an apical, subflexuous, 10 [25 cm] long, racemose, longer than the leaves, few to several flowered inflorescence that has successive opening flowers occurring in late winter and early spring. This specis has many similarities to P tuerkheimii but differs in the successively flowered, fractiflex inflorescence that is much shorter.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [4.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths conanthera 1881 Rchb.f.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths formosa 1912 Schltr.
Add+ Dracontia Drc pachyglossa 2004 (Lindl.) Luer
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths pachyglossa 1840 Lindl.
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia conanthera 1891 (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia pachyglossa 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. pachyglossa 'Regalo de Coban' (2 awards in 1997) Ste. pachyglossa 'Mello Spirit' (2009) Pths. pachyglossa 'Rodrigo' (1985)
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