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Orchid Species: Stelis imraei

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Stelis imraei is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
Genus
Stelis (Ste.)
Grex
imraei
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Year
2001
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ORIGIN: Found in The Leeward and Windward Islands, Guyana, Surinam, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil in cloud forests as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments that occurs at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments that occurs at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters with elongate ramicauls subtended by a scarious, semi-inflated basal bract and then another below the middle carrying a single, apical, ovate, gradually rounds out to a long petiolate base, acute leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on several lateral, 3 [7.5 cm] long, laxly racemose inflorescence arising from a spathe and usually held on the back side of the leaf with several distant, tubular, appressed bracts and successively opening, 7 to 15, pubescent flowers held at mid leaf height.

FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths umbraticola 1929 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths vaginata 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Specklinia Spe vaginata 2004 (Schltr.) Luer
Add+ Stelis Ste vaginata 2001 (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths imraei 1859 Lindl.
Add+ Effusiella Effusiella imraei 2007 (Lindl.) Luer
Add+ Effusiella Effusiella vaginata 2007 (Schltr.) Luer
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia imraei 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Add+ Specklinia Spe imraei 2004 (Lindl.) Luer
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Ste. imraei 'Gigi' (2016) Pths. imraei 'Bryon' (1999)
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