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Orchid Species: Stelis apiculata

Kew currently accepted name is Stelis pusilla

Stelis apiculata is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1859. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis pusilla.
Genus
Stelis (Ste.)
Grex
apiculata
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1859
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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal, short sheaths and another longer, inflated sheath in the upper third and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, racemose, distichous, congested, to 4.8 [to 12 cm] long including the 2 [5 cm] long peduncle, many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate, apiculate floral bracts with folded sides.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Apatostelis Apatostelis minuta 1979 (C.Schweinf.) Garay
Add+ Stelis Ste pusilla 1816 Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt
Add+ Stelis Ste dazae 1980 Garay
Add+ Stelis Ste callicentrum 1917 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste chabreana 1926 Mansf.
Add+ Stelis Ste citrina 1920 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste elegantula 1924 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste graminea 1859 Lindl.
Add+ Stelis Ste herbiola 1859 Lindl.
Add+ Stelis Ste lloensis 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste megahybos 1915 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste microphylla 1859 Hoehne & Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste minuta 1942 C.Schweinf.
Add+ Stelis Ste myriantha 1859 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste polyclada 1859 Lindl.
Add+ Stelis Ste scandens 1907 Schltr.
Add+ Stelis Ste tenuis 1920 Schltr.
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