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Pleurothallis galerasensis is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1998. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis galerasensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Narino Colombia at elevations around 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with approximate below, proliferating above, stout to slender, erect to suberect ramcauls with a loose tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, 4 to 8.8 [10 to 22 cm] long, secund, simultaneously densely many flowered inflorescence arising through a foliaceous spathe with an annulus and has thin, tubular 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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