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Orchid Species: Stelis weddelliana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis weddelliana is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Bolivia at elevations around 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with fasciculate, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3, loose, imbricating sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3, simultaneous, 2.8 to 4.4 [7 to 11 cm] long, distichous, densely simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a broad, foliaceous spathe with an annulus adjacent to the abcission layer and has inflated 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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