dimanche 29 août 2010

Stellis argentata




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Fleur : aout 2010

Full shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in summer to fall
Found at elevations of 120 to 2200 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil in tropical rainforests with clustered, lightly complanate ramicauls enveloped by a large, subinflated tubular, scarious sheath and a single, apical, oblong, tapered to the base into the cuneate petiole, slightly tridentate at the apex, coriaceous leaf that blooms on an erect, 10 cm long, racemose, several to many flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts occurring in the summer and fall.