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Orchid Species: Stelis simplex
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis simplex is an orchid species identified by (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 2700 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3, imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, slender, subflexuous, distichous, 4 to 6.4 [10 to 16 cm] long, including the 1.6 to 2 [4 to 5 cm] long peduncle, densely many flowered inflorescence with several flowers open at any one time arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.12 inches [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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