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Orchid Species: Stelis striolata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis striolata is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1859.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptic-oblong, subacute to obtuse, tridenticulate apically, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 to several, fasciculate, 2.4 to 8 [6 to 20 cm] long including the very short peduncle, distichous to subsecund, laxly to densely, mostly simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with cuculate-acuminate 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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