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Orchid Species: Stelis moritzii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis moritzii is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Guyana, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations 1725 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with fasciculate, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3, loose, imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the subpetiolate to shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and early summer on 1 to 4, subcongested, more or less distichous, 3.2 to 6 [8 to 15 cm] long, simultaneously several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a compressed spathe from an annulus near or 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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