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Orchid Species: Stelis vargasii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis vargasii is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru and Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 3500 to 3700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls with a loose tubular sheaths near the middle and 2 to 3, loose, imbricating sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate below into the sessile-subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a few to several, simultaneous, more or less secund, 4 to 7.6 [10 to 19 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2 [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a conspicuous spathe from an annulus just below the abscission layer and has a rose suffused floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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