Stelis pilosa Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Stelis pilosa Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 17(2): 100 (2002).

Stelis pilosa Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Wiel Driessen

its native range is Costa Rica to W. Panama.

Latin Name: 

Stelis pilosa Pridgeon & M.W.Chase,

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Effusiella amparoana (Schltr.) Luer

Pleurothallis amparoana Schltr.

Specklinia amparoana (Schltr.) Luer

Stelis amparoana (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

English Name:

Dona Amparo's Pleurothallis (Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast 1900's).

Description: 

With thin ramicauls enveloped basally by several tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-oblanceolate, conduplicate at the base leaves and blooms with an apical, 3 to 10 cm long, racemose, laxly several (6 to 8) flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe at the leaf base, with triangular bracts, which is longer than the leaves and occurs in the winter and spring. An easy diagnostic characteristic of this species is the white flowers and the shallowly, saccate pilose synsepal, has a resemblance to a toilet seat.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Panamá.

Ecological:

This miniature sized, cool growing, epiphytic species  in lower montane rain forests at elevations of 1200 to 1800 m.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/1067552-2 

- orchidspecies.com/plueramparo.htm.

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1067552-2

- orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Stelis