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Humboltia pilifera is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis pilifera.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2550 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute, acuminate, deeply cuneate below into the elongate, slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a fascile of 3 to 6, erect, congested, more or less secund, 7.2 to 16 [ 18 to 40 cm] long including the 2 to 4.8 [5 to 12 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus below the abscission layer.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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