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Stelis barbicollis is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1859. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis discolor.
ORIGIN: Found in Narino Colombia and Pichincha and Bolivar Ecuador at elevations around 2800 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, congested, secund, 4 to 6 [10 to 15 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6 [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with tubular, obtuse 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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