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Orchid Species: Stelis megachlamys

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Stelis megachlamys is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Pupulin in 2002.
Genus
Stelis (Ste.)
Grex
megachlamys
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Schltr.) Pupulin
Year
2002
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ORIGIN: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica and Panama as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte in mixed oak-pine cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2400 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica and Panama as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte in mixed oak-pine cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2400 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, somewhat inflated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic to oval or lanceolate, obtuse, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the later summer on a racemose, erect, to 14 [to 35 cm] long, loosely several to many [to 20] flowered inflorescence arising from a large, inflated basal spathe with simultaneously opening flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 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 megachlamys 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Dracontia Drc tuerckheimii 2004 (Schltr.) Luer
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths tuerckheimii 1912 Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. tuerckheimii 'White Christmas' (2 awards from 1990 to 1999) Pths. tuerckheimii 'Thelma de Cortez' (2018) Ste. megachlamys 'Donna's Dream' (2007) Pths. tuerckheimii 'Underwood' (2002) Pths. tuerckheimii 'Coban' (1985) Pths. tuerckheimii 'Dona Conchita' (1985) Pths. tuerckheimii 'Kennedy' (1959)
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