mardi 12 juillet 2011

Stelis crescentiicola

From orchidpeople
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in lowland forests at elevations of 300 to 1350 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by several tubular scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute or obtuse leaf and blooms in the winter on a suberect to arcuate, racemose, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with minute, infundibuliform floral bracts and small green to yellow green flowers.



Full shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower in winter
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in lowland forests at elevations of 300 to 1350 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by several tubular scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute or obtuse leaf and blooms in the winter on a suberect to arcuate, racemose, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with minute, infundibuliform floral bracts and small green to yellow green flowers.