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Orchid Species: Apatostelis chamaestelis

Kew currently accepted name is Stelis chamaestelis

Apatostelis chamaestelis is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Garay in 1979. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis chamaestelis.
Genus
Apatostelis (Apatostelis.)
Grex
chamaestelis
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Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Garay
Year
1979
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ORIGIN: Found in northwestern Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 2600 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear-elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, erect, thin, almost filiform, distichous, 8” [20 cm] long including the .8” [2 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe from a node below the apex of the ramicaul with tubular, obtuse floral bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.12 inches [3 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Stelis Ste chamaestelis 1966 (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths chamaestelis 1850 Rchb.f.
Add+ Stelis Ste florea 1859 Lindl.
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