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Orchid Species: Stelis virgata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis virgata is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1800 to 3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate, superposed, stout to slender ramicauls enveloped by a long tubular sheath near the middle and several, imbricating sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on 1 to 3, simultaneous slender, more or less secund, 2.8 to 6 [7 to 15 cm] long, densely and simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with an annulus below the abscission layer with infundibular, imbricating floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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