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Stelis ochreata is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1859. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis lindenii.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout, clumped ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal tubular sheaths and another longer, inflated sheath in the upper third and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, tridenticulate, narrowing below more or less abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to several, as long to longer than the leaf, to 12 [to 30 cm] long, racemose, distichous, laxly to densely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate, apiculate floral bracts with folded sides.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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