Stelis brunnea

 Stelis brunnea (Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 261 (2001).

Stelis brunnea (Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Norman Steller Rodríguez

its native range is Costa Rica to Panama.

Latin Name: 

Stelis brunnea (Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Salpistele brunnea Dressler

English Name:

The Brown Salpistele.

Description: 

With suberect ramicauls enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, tridenticulate and somewhat apiculate apically, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petilolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through spring on a creeping, subpendant, 7.7 cm long, sinuous, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular bract.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Panamá.

Ecological:

In cloud forests on mosssy trunks at elevations around 800 to 1400 m as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

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

https://www.ipni.org/n/1128758-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1128758-2

http://www.orchidspecies.com/stelisbrunnea.htm

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Dendrobium_intricatum