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Orchid Species: Stelis flacca
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stelis flacca is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1855.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, erect, slightly fractiflex, distichous, loose, 3.6 to 5.2 [9 to 13 cm] long including the .68 to 1 [1.7 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with cucullate, acuminate red 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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